ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,940, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Healthcare object recognition, systems and methods" was invented by Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles), John Zachary Sanborn (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Stephen Charles Benz (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Charles Joseph Vaske (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Healthcare object (HCO) discriminator systems and methods are presented. Systems can obtain a digital representation of a scene via a sensor interface. An HCO discriminator platform analyzes the digital representation to discriminate objects within the scene as being associated with a type...