ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,881, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BRAINLAB AG (Munich).

"Training and using a learning algorithm using a transcript of audio data for identification of a medical device visible in image data" was invented by Christoffer Hamilton (Aschheim, Germany) and Juliane Weinzierl (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are computer-implemented methods of training a learning algorithm on the basis of audio and image data which has been pre-processed to generate a time-synchronized transcript of the audio information and the image information to allow the learning algorithm to identify a medical device such as a medical instrument...