ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,175, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to NavLab Holdings II LLC (Seattle).

"Surgical system with AR/VR training simulator and intra-operative physician image-guided assistance" was invented by Jeffrey Roh (Seattle) and Justin Esterberg (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for providing assistance to a surgeon during a surgical procedure are disclosed. An example method includes identifying a medical condition of a patient and recommending surgical procedures for treatment. An optimal surgical procedure is then determined based on correlations between the medical condition of the patient and outcomes of previous sur...