US Patent Issued to Dignity Health on Aug. 11 for "Apparatus and methods for surgical lighting" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,521, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dignity Health (San Francisco).

"Apparatus and methods for surgical lighting" was invented by Clinton Morgan (San Francisco), Peter Nakaji (San Francisco) and Sung Il Park (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for surgical lighting is disclosed. The apparatus includes a light emitting element formed with a light source encapsulated within an outer layer. The outer layer includes a biocompatible material. A power supply is coupled to the light source. The apparatus includes an actuating mechanism that controls power from the power supply to the light source to emit ...