ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,465, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Method for operating a surgical system" was invented by Hendrik Timmermann (Hamburg, Germany) and Andreas Mueckner (Schwarzenbek, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: upon or during the insertion of an endoscope shaft into a trocar sleeve, detecting first brightness values at a distal end of the endoscope shaft by an image sensor over time and detecting a first temporal brightness profile depending on the detected first brightness values and the time, and/or upon or during the withdrawal of the endoscope shaft from the trocar ...