ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,990, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DIGITAL SURGERY Ltd. (London).

"Surgical tracking and procedural map analysis tool" was invented by Omar Alvi (London), Andre Chow (London), James Kellerman (London), James Liu (London) and Danail Stoyanov (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for accessing a surgical dataset including surgical data collected during performance of a surgical procedure. The surgical data can include video data of the surgical procedure. Using the surgical data, a plurality of procedural states associated with the surgical procedure can be determined. For a pro...