ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,451, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL INC. (Kitchener, Canada).

"Operating room remote monitoring" was invented by Richard Tyler Fanson (Stoney Creek, Canada), Andre Novomir Hladio (Waterloo, Canada) and Samantha McCabe (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "OR computing system monitoring is described including self-monitoring and monitoring, with or without intervention, via a monitoring computing system. For a patient procedure in an OR, positions of one or more objects are tracked using sensors. Intra-operative data including pose information is communicated (e.g. in real time) to a monitoring co...