US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 29 for "Method and system for surgical instrumentation setup and user preferences" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,070, issued on July 29, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Method and system for surgical instrumentation setup and user preferences" was invented by Sean Hastings (Flower Mound, Texas), Richard A. Beutter (Argyle, Texas) and Andrew Schultz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of sterilizing an operating room comprises, at a computing system, capturing a first image of the operating room by at least one camera; determining that no people are present in the operating room based on analysis of the first image; and in response to determining that no people are present in the operating room, controlling an ult...