ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,681, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical system with augmented reality display" was invented by Jeffrey S. Swayze (Hamilton, Ohio), Joshua Young (Loveland, Ohio), Geoffrey S. Strobl (Williamsburg, Ohio) and Andrew Beckman (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a detector that includes an array of pixels configured to detect light reflected by a surgical device and generate a first signal. The first signal includes a first dataset representative of a visible image of the surgical device. The surgical system also includes a processor configured to recei...