US Patent Issued to Illumix Surgical Canada on June 24 for "Illuminating surgical device" (Dutch, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,864, issued on June 24, was assigned to Illumix Surgical Canada Inc. (Ontario, Canada).

"Illuminating surgical device" was invented by Anil Duggal (Lexington, Ky.), Paul Dobrovolskis (Ancaster, Canada), Roel H Kusters (Sittard, Netherlands), Edsger Constant Pieter Smits (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Stephan Harkema (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of claimed subject matter are directed to an illuminating surgical device comprising an array of illuminating elements and an array of louvers to direct light from the individual illuminating elements toward a surgical field."

The patent was filed on June 7...