ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,069, issued on July 8, was assigned to ProPep Surgical LLC (Austin, Texas).

"System and method for laparoscopic nerve identification, nerve location marking, and nerve location recognition" was invented by Jann Bonfils-Rasmussen (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for nerve identification, monitoring, location marking, and location recognition system used during laparoscopic surgery."

The patent was filed on April 19, 2021, under Application No. 17/234,163.

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