ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,784, issued on April 15, was assigned to GENESIS MEDTECH (USA) INC. (Saint Louis Park, Minn.).

"Intelligent energy device based on real-time visual analysis of laparoscopic video" was invented by Bin Zhao (Ellicott, Md.), Ning Li (Pittsburgh) and Shan Wan (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A console is disclosed. The console includes: an image receiving module configured to receive image data from a first device connected to the console; an image processing module in communication with the image receiving module, the image processing module configured to process the received image data to determine tissue characteristic d...