US Patent Issued to Warsaw Orthopedic on July 14 for "Surgical draping system and method for using same" (Tennessee, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,255, issued on July 14, was assigned to Warsaw Orthopedic Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Surgical draping system and method for using same" was invented by Jeffrey W. Beale (Bartlett, Tenn.), Robert Andrew Fields (Memphis, Tenn.), Richard Hynes (Melbourne Beach, Fla.) and Matthew Morrison (Cordova, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical draping system includes an under-draping, an over-draping, and a connecting draping connected by the under-draping and the over-draping. The surgical draping system is used to establish and maintain a surgical corridor to a surgical site or sites on a patient supported by a surgical table. The surgica...