ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,144, issued on March 11, was assigned to Digital Diagnostics Inc. (Coralville, Iowa).

"Monitoring surface cleaning of medical surfaces using video streaming" was invented by Joseph Ferrante (Cambridge, Mass.), Kelsey Gross (Seattle) and Elliot Swart (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning wizard monitors and provides feedback for cleaning of medical equipment to ensure that cleaning is performed based on best practices. The cleaning wizard receives a video stream comprising an item of medical equipment and inputs a first set of video frames from the video stream into a first machine learning model. The first machine learn...