ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,122, issued on April 7, was assigned to Synaptive Medical Inc..

"Context aware surgical systems and methods via hyperspectral image analysis to configure a device during medical procedure" was invented by Cameron Piron (Toronto), Michael Wood (Toronto), Gal Sela (Toronto), Joshua Richmond (Toronto), Murugathas Yuwaraj (Markham, Canada), Stephen McFadyen (Toronto), Alex Panther (Toronto), Nishanthan Shanmugaratnam (Scarborough, Canada), William Lau (Toronto), Monroe M. Thomas (Toronto), Wes Hodges (London, Canada), Simon Alexander (Toronto) and David Gallop (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods involving a contro...