US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 24 for "Systems and methods for automatic detection of surgical specialty type and procedure type" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,312, issued on June 24, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for automatic detection of surgical specialty type and procedure type" was invented by Kundan Krishna (Surrey, Canada), Amit A. Mahadik (San Jose, Calif.) and Hannes Rau (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatic detection of surgical specialty type and procedure type are disclosed. One or more classification networks may be applied to automatically process input surgical image data in order to recognize and determine a surgical specialty type and a surgical procedure type depicted in the input image da...