US Patent Issued to Asensus Surgical Europe on Sept. 9 for "Method of alerting a user to off-screen events during surgery" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,823, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Asensus Surgical Europe SARL (Bertrange, Luxembourg).

"Method of alerting a user to off-screen events during surgery" was invented by Tal Nir (Haifa, Israel) and Yehuda Pfeffer (Moshav Dvorah, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image of a field of view is captured by the endoscope and a portion of the image is displayed on a display. A popup image is generated and displayed upon image analysis identification of an occurrence of bleeding or motion of edges of an incision that is within the field of view, but outside the portion of the field of view displayed on the display."

The patent w...