US Patent Issued to FONDATION DE COOPERATION SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS, UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE, INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE CONTRE LES CANCERS DE L'APPAREIL DIGESTIF on March 24 for "Processing of video streams related to surgical operations" (Belgian, Italian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,498, issued on March 24, was assigned to FONDATION DE COOPERATION SCIENTIFIQUE (Strasbourg, France), UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG (Strasbourg, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS (Paris), UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE (Milan) and INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE CONTRE LES CANCERS DE L'APPAREIL DIGESTIF (Strasbourg, France).

"Processing of video streams related to surgical operations" was invented by Nicolas Padoy (Strasbourg, France), Pietro Mascagni (Rome) and Bernard Dallemagne (Beaufays, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for processing a video stream related to a specific operative procedure. The dev...