ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,147, issued on June 3, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Hot device indication of video display" was invented by Geoffrey S. Strobl (Williamsburg, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a first detector that includes a first array of pixels configured to detect light reflected by a surgical instrument and generate a first signal comprising a first dataset representative of a visible image of the surgical instrument. The surgical system also includes a second detector, comprising a second array of pixels configured to detect infrared radiation produced by the surgical instrument durin...