US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Jan. 27 for "Real time correlated depiction system of surgical tool" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,008, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Real time correlated depiction system of surgical tool" was invented by Steen MoLler Hansen (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Henriette Schultz Kirkegaard (Copenhagen V, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depiction system for generating a real time correlated depiction of movements of a surgical tool for uses in minimally invasive surgery is described. In an embodiment the system includes a computer system, 3D surface data generation means and position data generation means for obtaining real time spatial position data of at least a part of the surgical...