ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,978, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Sterile handle control mechanism" was invented by James K. Alexanderson (Coppell, Texas), Wojciech K. Timoszyk (Flower Mound, Texas), Vikas Kumar (Haryana, India), Sudhanshu Mehta (Guragaon, India) and Robert L. York (Lantana, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling characteristics of light emitted from a surgical light includes remotely configuring a surgical light, using a remote computing system communicatively connected to the surgical light, by selecting which of a plurality of characteristics of light emitted from the surgical light a...