US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 15 for "Utilization of surgical data values and situational awareness to control the overlay in surgical field view" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,991, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Utilization of surgical data values and situational awareness to control the overlay in surgical field view" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio), Matthew D. Cowperthwait (Cincinnati), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Cory G. Kimball (Hamilton, Ohio), Monica L. Z. Rivard (Cincinnati), Leonardo N. Rossoni (Rahway, N.J.), Risto Kojcev (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Felix J. Bork (Schnurpflingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical visualization system is disc...