US Patent Issued to Covidien on May 13 for "Systems and methods leveraging audio sensors to facilitate surgical procedures" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,690, issued on May 13, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods leveraging audio sensors to facilitate surgical procedures" was invented by Robert H. Wham (Boulder, Colo.), William E. Robinson (Boulder, Colo.) and James D. Allen IV (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes at least one audio sensor configured to sense audio during a surgical procedure and to output audio data based on the sensed audio. The surgical system further includes a computing device operably coupled to the at least one audio sensor and configured to receive the output audio data from the at least ...