US Patent Issued to Asensus Surgical Europe on July 22 for "Device and method for assisting laparoscopic surgery utilizing a touch screen" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,546, issued on July 22, was assigned to Asensus Surgical Europe SARL (Lugano, Switzerland).

"Device and method for assisting laparoscopic surgery utilizing a touch screen" was invented by Gal Atarot (Kfar Saba, Israel), Tal Nir (Haifa, Israel), Motti Frimer (Zichron Yaakov, Israel) and Tami Harel (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical controlling system, comprising: at least one surgical tool configured to be inserted into a surgical environment of a human body; at least one location estimating means configured for real-time localization of the 3D spatial position of said at least one surgical tool at any given time...