US Patent Issued to Arthrex on Sept. 23 for "Camera apparatus for coordinated operation with surgical tools" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,719, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Arthrex Inc. (Naples, Fla.).

"Camera apparatus for coordinated operation with surgical tools" was invented by Ryan Kellar (Naples, Fla.), James Kitchen (Fort Myers, Fla.), Andrew Melton (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Tzung-Yu Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Rachel M. Frank (Denver), Chad Lavender (Hurricane, W.va.), Benjamin Siegel (Naples, Fla.), Erik Jamison-Ekeling (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Connor Engstrom (Ventura, Calif.), Craig Speier (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Robert Fergan (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical imaging system includes at least one camera apparatus having a camera body i...