US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for managing air quality in a surgical environment" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,934, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for managing air quality in a surgical environment" was invented by Sean Victor Hastings (Flower Mound, Texas) and Heather Marlene Coughlan (Brantford, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to improving surgery safety, and more specifically to techniques for managing air quality associated with an operating room. An exemplary method for managing air quality associated with an operating room comprises: detecting a quantity of a substance in the air in the operating room; determining a surgical milestone...