ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,678, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Surgical stapler reload simulation" was invented by Roberta Hindi (Zug, Switzerland) and Chad Prather (Zug, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for simulating a surgical activity may present a first graphical representation of a portion of anatomy. The device may simulate a path for the surgical activity. The device may determine surgical tool selection points associated with selecting surgical tools on the path for the surgical activity. The device may present a surgical range to select from at surgical tool selection points. In respo...