US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on April 22 for "Identification of images shapes based on situational awareness of a surgical image and annotation of shapes or pixels" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,837, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Identification of images shapes based on situational awareness of a surgical image and annotation of shapes or pixels" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for identification of image shapes based on situational awareness of a surgical image and annotation of shapes or pixels. A surgical video associated with a surgical procedure may be obtained. Surgical context data for the surgical procedure may be obtained. Elements in the video frames may be...