US Patent Issued to Covidien on May 12 for "Systems and methods for clinical workspace simulation" (Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,422, issued on May 12, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for clinical workspace simulation" was invented by Max L. Balter (Newton, Mass.), Michael A. Eiden (Somerville, Mass.), William J. Peine (Ashland, Mass.), Unnas W. Hussain (Cambridge, Mass.) and Justin R. Chen (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for clinical workspace simulation includes capturing a real-world environment by an imaging device of an augmented reality headset and generating a composite view by rendering a first virtual object relative to a surgical table in the real-world environment. C...