US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for assessing surgical ability" (Georgia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,239, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for assessing surgical ability" was invented by Kristen Brown (Roswell, Ga.), Kiran Bhattacharyya (Atlanta), Anthony Michael Jarc (Johns Creek, Ga.), Sue Kulason (Baltimore), Linlin Zhou (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Aneeq Zia (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various of the disclosed embodiments relate to computer systems and computer-implemented methods for measuring and monitoring surgical performance, For example, the system may receive raw data acquired from the surgical theater, generate and select features from th...