ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,237, issued on July 14, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Reconfigurable display in computer-assisted tele-operated surgery" was invented by Mahdi Azizian (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described in this document can be embodied in a method that includes operating a surgical system to perform a surgical process, the surgical system including a display device, and receiving, at one or more processing devices, data from multiple data sources. The method also includes determining a current phase of the surgical process, and displaying, on the display device, visual...