ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,412, issued on May 6.

"Video architecture and framework for collecting surgical video at scale" was invented by Jack Wade (La Jolla, Calif.) and Jason Wade (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a foundational video architecture and a framework for collecting surgical video at an enterprise scale. It enables hospitals to ingest, manage, and fully utilize patient surgical video within the hospital and to share video with designated users outside of the hospital. It is a passive solution that automatically records video during surgery and provides key clips post surgery. It stores video to the cloud a...