ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,998, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DIGITAL SURGERY Ltd. (London).

"Methods and systems for using multiple data structures to process surgical data" was invented by Petros Giataganas (London), Imanol Luengo Muntion (London), Andre Chow (London), Jean Nehme (London) and Danail Stoyanov (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to processing data streams from a surgical procedure using multiple interconnected data structures to generate and/or continuously update an electronic output. Each surgical data structure is used to determine a current node associated with a characteristic of a surgical procedure a...