US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Sept. 23 for "Automatically controlling an on/off state of a light source for an endoscope during a surgical procedure in an operating room" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,493, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatically controlling an on/off state of a light source for an endoscope during a surgical procedure in an operating room" was invented by Jagadish Venkataraman (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system capable of automatically turning on/off a light source during a surgical procedure is disclosed. This endoscope system includes: an endoscope module; a light source module coupled to the endoscope module; and a light-source control module. Moreover, the light-source control module controls an ON/OFF state of the light ...