ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,159, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Visionsense Ltd. (Petah Tikva, Israel).

"Systems and methods for mesh and tack diagnosis" was invented by Achia Kronman (Pardes Hannah, Israel), Rami Cohen (Misgav Regional Council, Israel), Ohad Doron (Herzelia, Israel), Amit Ruf (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Daniella Ziv (Tel Aviv, Israel), Elisha Rabinovitz (Haifa, Israel), Gaetan Guerin (Lyons, France) and Tal Davidson (Yokneam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for surgical mesh analysis includes a display screen, a processor, and a memory. The memory has instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor, cause the s...