US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 28 for "Method and system for color based indication of suture strain" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,548, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Method and system for color based indication of suture strain" was invented by Dwight Meglan (Westwood, Mass.), Manish Pati (South Boston, Mass.) and Cameron K. Cecil (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing a visual indication of suture strain include detecting a force applied to the suture; obtaining an image including the suture; identifying, based on at least one of an algorithm to convert a plurality of forces to a plurality of colors or in a table that associates a plurality of colors to a plurality of forces, respectively, ...