US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for surgical data classification" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,050, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for surgical data classification" was invented by Aneeq Zia (Atlanta), Kiran Bhattacharyya (Atlanta) and Anthony Jarc (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various of the disclosed embodiments are directed to computer-implemented systems and methods for recognizing surgical tasks from surgical data, In some embodiments an ensemble model configured to receive video data, kinematics data, and system event data from the surgical theater may be implemented. The ensemble model may implement modular streams for proc...