US Patent Issued to Stryker on March 24 for "Methods and systems to automate surgical interventions" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,500, issued on March 24, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Methods and systems to automate surgical interventions" was invented by Amit Mahadik (San Jose, Calif.), Jagadish Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.), Ramanan Paramasivan (San Jose, Calif.), Brad Hunter (Hollister, Calif.), Afshin Jila (San Jose, Calif.), Kundan Krishna (Surrey, Canada) and Hannes Rau (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system for viewing a surgical site, the imaging system including a system controller configured to: receive and process video images of the surgical site captured by an endoscopic camera coupled to an endosc...