US Patent Issued to Stryker on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for classifying and annotating images taken during a medical procedure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,407, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for classifying and annotating images taken during a medical procedure" was invented by Brian Fouts (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Cole Kincaid Hunter (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Harmandip Singh Sodhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically generating and applying annotations to one or more images captured during a surgical procedure using an imaging tool are provided. In one or more examples, the annotations can be generated by applying one or more machine learning classifiers to the images to determine the presenc...