ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,722, issued on June 24, was assigned to Eclipse Orthopaedics LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Surgical viewing system" was invented by David B. Rich (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical viewing system including an X-ray source, a surgical tool and an actuator. The X-ray source creates a beam of radiation used in an image creating process. The surgical tool has the X-ray source coupled thereto, and the surgical tool has an axis of rotation. The actuator is coupled to the surgical tool causing the beam of radiation to be shifted relative to the axis of rotation."

The patent was filed on June 30, 2022, under Application No. 17/8...