ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,268, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic system, control method, endoscope control apparatus, and program" was invented by Makoto Korehisa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shunsuke Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a surgery system, a control method, a surgical apparatus, and a program that allow easy updating of a function of a medical apparatus. A configuration includes an information processor, and a surgical apparatus. The information processor includes a storage section storing an application, and a transmission section transmitting, in response to...