ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,687, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, medical central control system, and surgery-related information display method" was invented by Takayuki Katsuyama (Tokyo) and Kiyoshi Sekiguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a processor. The processor selects one scene of a plurality of scenes of a predetermined surgical operation based on user input, changes settings of a surgical apparatus according to the scene selected when each scene is selected, selects surgery-related information according to the scene selected, and displays the surgery-related information on ...