ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,740, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical simulation object rectification system" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio) and Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device for simulating a surgical procedure may be configured to receive first two-dimensional (2D) image data of a first human organ of a first patient and second 2D image data of a second human organ of a second patient. The computing device may be configured to generate 3D image data from an aggregation of the first 2D image data ...