ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,034, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAFEOP SURGICAL INC. (Hunt Valley, Md.).

"Systems and methods for preventing contamination of recorded biological signals during surgery" was invented by Cameron Mahon (Hunt Valley, Md.) and Curt Labelle (Hunt Valley, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for recording, processing, and monitoring biosignals is provided, the system being configured to suspend data acquisition whenever an electric surgical tool or other generator of high frequency interference is in use. Such a system may protect the hardware of the system and reduce or eliminate the acquisition of distorted signals. The sy...