ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,072, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Digitization of an operating room" was invented by Blade A. Olson (Mountain View, Calif.), Bernhard A. Fuerst (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexander Barthel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yiming Xu (Foster City, Calif.), Giacomo Taylor (San Francisco) and Tianyu Song (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical exercise performed with a surgical robotic system is sensed by depth cameras, generating 3D point cloud data. Robot system data associated with the surgical robotic system is logged. Object recognition is performed on image data produced by th...