ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,905, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SG Devices Inc. (North Oaks, Minn.).

"Augmented reality display of surgical imaging" was invented by Sergey Gurevich (North Oaks, Minn.) and Stephen Alexander George (North Oaks, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging sensor includes a radiation sensor. An imaging controller is configured to: (i) generate an imaging-datastream based on the sensed phenomena and (ii) transmit, to a central controller, the imaging-datastream. The central controller is configured to: receive the imaging-datastream; generate, from the imaging-datastream, a high-contrast videostream in which surgical tools and...