US Patent Issued to Hologic on Feb. 3 for "System for visualization and control of surgical devices utilizing a graphical user interface" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,097, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"System for visualization and control of surgical devices utilizing a graphical user interface" was invented by Gordon E. Epstein (Austin, Texas) and Richard Spero (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for visualizing and guiding a surgical device having a first imaging device of a first type and has a first image output. The first imaging device is positioned to image an area being subject to surgery. A second imaging device of a second type has a second image output. The second imaging device is positioned to image an area being subject to sur...