ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,053, issued on May 26, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"GYN pathology surgical simulation models and systems for surgical training" was invented by Shih Chieh Yang (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Tulsi Patel (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Emma Stumpf (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Oscar Raygan (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Gregory K. Hofstetter (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide GYN pathology simulation models for surgical training. These models are energy-compatible models emulating the tissue-base...