ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,584, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CooperSurgical Inc. (Trumbull, Conn.).

"Configurable workstations" was invented by Shuo Robert Chen (White Plains, N.Y.), Rodrigo DaSilva (Trumbull, Conn.), Wilfrido Enrique Thalliens Angulo (Cornwall, Great Britain), Adam H Morales (Trumbull, Conn.), Robert Williams (Norwalk, Conn.), Robert Thompson (Cornwall, Great Britain), Luke Thomas Lane (Cornwall, Great Britain), Vagn Rasmussen (Roskilde, Denmark) and Timothy Stanhope (Cornwall, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configurable workstation includes a support frame defining a workspace for performing a scientific procedure, mult...