ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,274, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ORTHOSOFT ULC (Montreal).
"Surgery assistance system" was invented by Pierre Couture (Montreal), Ramnada Chav (Laval, Canada), Sebastien Parratte (Marseilles, France) and Kevin Unger (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical assistance system includes a processing unit; and a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for: obtaining a video feed of a surgical procedure and monitoring the surgical procedure from the video feed; detecting, from an image pro...