ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,962, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Controlling a surgical system using a footswitch" was invented by Daniel Durant (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic surgical system comprises a surgical microscope that provides a field of view of a surgical site to a user. A microscope display device displays a graphical overlay and the field of view. The graphical overlay displays fields to adjust configurable settings that modify operation of a surgical instrument. A footswitch receives user input from the user to adjust the configurable settings by: detecting a firs...