ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,255, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Using multiple modalities of surgical data for comprehensive data analytics of a surgical procedure" was invented by Jagadish Venkataraman (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Pablo Garcia Kilroy (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent disclosure provides various embodiments of combining multiple modalities of non-text surgical data in forms of videos, images, and audios in a meaningful manner so that the combined data can be used to perform comprehensive data analytics for a surgical procedure. In some embodiments, the disclosed system can ...