US Patent Issued to Stryker on April 7 for "Systems and methods for data communication via a light cable" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,968, issued on April 7, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for data communication via a light cable" was invented by Thomas Newton (Vancouver, Canada), Pedro A. Perez (Hollister, Calif.), Paul Oh Hwang (San Jose, Calif.), Benjamin Hyman Feingold (San Francisco) and Vitaliy I. Tkachenko (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light cable for conveying light from a light source to an endoscope includes a first connector at a proximal end of the light cable for connecting to the light source; a second connector at a distal end of the light cable for connecting to the endoscope; a light guide...