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Sony patents surgical simulator that mimics bleeding and smoke

Patent drawing
Patent drawing from the official filing.

Sony has filed a patent for a computer-based training tool that mimics how biological tissue reacts to medical energy devices. The system calculates how heat spreads through the tissue to simulate realistic effects like bleeding or smoke release during a procedure.

Why it mattersThis could help medical students practice delicate procedures by providing more realistic visual feedback on how heat affects tissue.

In the filing’s own words

A simulator includes a processing unit including at least one processor. The processing unit simulates at least one of bleeding and smoke release from a biological tissue, based on heating in the biological tissue caused by an energy device, and heat propagation in the biological tissue.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A simulator comprising: a processing unit including at least one processor, wherein the processing unit simulates at least one of bleeding and smoke release from a biological tissue, based on heating in the biological tissue caused by an energy device, and heat propagation in the biological tissue.

Facts

Company
Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
Official title
SIMULATOR, SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION PROGRAM, AND SIMULATOR SYSTEM
Publication number
US20260311618A1
Application number
19481355
Filed
Apr 24, 2024
Published
Oct 8, 2026
Inventors
1
Claims
16

Classified under

G09B 23/28 Physics & computingG09B 9/00 Physics & computing
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