US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, CLEARCAM on April 15 for "Methods, systems and controllers for facilitating cleaning of an imaging element of an imaging device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,414, issued on April 15, was assigned to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) and CLEARCAM INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Methods, systems and controllers for facilitating cleaning of an imaging element of an imaging device" was invented by Farshid Alambeigi (Austin, Texas), Alexander Cohen (Austin, Texas), Christopher R. Idelson (Austin, Texas) and Christopher Rylander (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are technological solutions that are configured to limit sub-optimal visualization of the surgical field during robotic and manual laparoscopic surgery. Such technological solution...