US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Nov. 3 for "Surgical visualization controls" (Ohio, Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,566, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical visualization controls" was invented by Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio), Paul G. Ritchie (Loveland, Ohio), Sarah A. Moore (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Joshua D. Talbert (Cottonwood Heights, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical visualization system is disclosed. The surgical visualization system is configured to identify one or more structure(s) and/or determine one or more distances with respect to obscuring tissue and/or the identified structure(s). The surgical visualization system can facilitate avoidance of the identified structur...