US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on March 11 for "Methods, systems, and computer readable media for generating and providing artificial intelligence assisted surgical guidance" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,741, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for generating and providing artificial intelligence assisted surgical guidance" was invented by Vivek Paresh Buch (Philadelphia), Peter John Madsen (Philadelphia) and Jianbo Shi (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating and providing artificial intelligence assisted surgical guidance includes analyzing video images from surgical procedure and training a neural network to identify at least one of anatomical objects, surgical objects, and tissue manipulation ...