US Patent Issued to Asensus Surgical US on April 1 for "Use of eye tracking input to initiate computer-vision identification of an object in a surgical image" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,958, issued on April 1, was assigned to Asensus Surgical US Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Use of eye tracking input to initiate computer-vision identification of an object in a surgical image" was invented by Kevin Andrew Hufford (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system includes an eye gaze sensing system in conjunction with a visual display of a camera image from a surgical work site. Detected gaze of a surgeon towards the display is used as input to the system. This input may be used by the system to assign an instrument to a control input device (when the user is prompted to look at the instrument), or it may b...