ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,800, issued on July 28, was assigned to Maquet Cardiovascular LLC (Wayne, N.J.).

"Electronic training system and method for surgical procedures" was invented by Wouter Pieter van Nierop (Leiden, Netherlands), Thorsten Prien (Heikendorf, Germany), Cindy Blasewitz (Wallingford, Conn.), Markus Adrianus Petrus van Kuijk (Valkenswaard, Netherlands), Jurriaan Hubrecht van Rijswijk (Helmond, Netherlands), Christian Knaapen (Delft, Netherlands), Bas Dado (Delft, Netherlands), Pepijn Rijnbout (Goirle, Netherlands), Menno Deen (Ultrecht, Netherlands), Stephen Zlock (Redding, Conn.), Tracie Pickering (Dallas) and Ashik A. Mohan (Alamo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S...