ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,975, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Surgical support system, surgical support method, and information storage medium" was invented by Masato Naruse (Hachioji, Japan), Tomoko Gocho (Hachioji, Japan), Tomoya Sakai (Hachioji, Japan), Shunya Akimoto (Nishitokyo, Japan) and Kazumasa Kunugi (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical support system includes a processor that establishes communication connection with a terminal. The processor performs processing of displaying a display screen on a terminal to present the display screen to a member other than a surgeon among operation team members vi...