US Patent Issued to Stryker on April 14 for "Devices, systems, and methods for surgical light spot size adjustment" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,463, issued on April 14, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for surgical light spot size adjustment" was invented by David Patrick Chase (Southlake, Texas) and Gianni Boccoleri (Lantana, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for adjusting the spot size of light provided from a surgical light by translating a focus panel relative to a plurality of light emitters. The focus panel can be mounted to the housing of the surgical light such that the focus panel can translate relative to the housing in an axial direction toward and away from the pl...