US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on Feb. 10 for "Method and system of inferring state of an inductive powered load" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,923, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Memphis, Tenn.) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Switzerland, Singapore).

"Method and system of inferring state of an inductive powered load" was invented by Charles Mark Sweet (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inferring state of an inductive powered load. At least one example embodiment is a method including: applying (502), by a controller (200) within a camera head (102), an identification signal to a primary winding (212) of a transformer (218) within the camera head (102) for an endoscopic system (1...