ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,210, issued on April 21, was assigned to EDDA TECHNOLOGY INC. (Princeton, N.J.).

"System and method for planning surgical resection of lesions by a linear cutting stapler" was invented by Guo-Qing Wei (Plainsboro, N.J.), Cheng-Chung Liang (West Windsor, N.J.), Xiaolan Zeng (Princeton, N.J.), Li Fan (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Jianzhong Qian (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, medium, and implementations for computer-aided preoperative surgical planning are described. Input data acquired with respect to a part of a patient is received by the system. The part corresponds to an organ, e.g., lung, of th...