ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,951, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Operating Room Innovations Inc. (Dennis, Mass.).

"Personal protective equipment adapter system for use with medical devices and methods of making and using same" was invented by Mark T. McBride (Coronado, Calif.), John Roughneen (Dennis, Mass.) and Phillip Salvatori (Salem, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments for a personal protective equipment ("PPE") adapter system for use with an augmented/virtual/mixed reality ("AR") devices and light devices, including an AR device having an AR viewing display and a headband operatively connected to the AR viewing disp...