US Patent Issued to NZ Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Methods and systems for touchless control of surgical environment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,192, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NZ Technologies Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Methods and systems for touchless control of surgical environment" was invented by Nima Ziraknejad (North Vancouver, Canada), Pranav Saxena (Vancouver, Canada), Anshul Porwal (Surrey, Canada) and Nameet Kumar (New Westminster, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method facilitates touchless control of medical equipment devices in an OR. The method involves: providing a three-dimensional control menu, which comprises a plurality of menu items selectable by the practitioner by one or more gestures made in a volumetric spatial region corresponding to ...