US Patent Issued to Asensus Surgical US, Asensus Surgical Europe S.a.R.L. on July 8 for "Creating surgical annotations using anatomy identification" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,112, issued on July 8, was assigned to Asensus Surgical US Inc. (Durham, N.C.) and Asensus Surgical Europe S.a.R.L. (Bertrange, Luxembourg).

"Creating surgical annotations using anatomy identification" was invented by Kevin Andrew Hufford (Cary, N.C.), Lior Alpert (Haifa, Israel), Tal Nir (Haifa, Israel), Nevo Yokev (Haifa, Israel), Dustin Owen Vaughan (Raleigh, N.C.) and Caleb T Osborne (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method allow creation of surgical annotations during surgery. A digital image of a treatment site in a region of patient anatomy is captured using a camera and is displayed on an image display....