ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,181, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DeGen Medical Inc. (Florence, S.C.).

"Procedure information sharing and performance using mixed and augmented reality" was invented by Craig Black (Florence, S.C.), Charles Robert Lucasiewicz (Florence, S.C.), Craig Russell (League City, Texas), Hitesh Mehta (Florence, S.C.), Marco Zambetti (League City, Texas), Mike Prosser (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) and Chris Duneske (Kirkwood, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technical description relates to mixed reality, augmented reality, and their use in the sharing of information about a procedure and in the performing of a procedure. A method for sha...