US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Jan. 28 for "Real-time surgical tool presence/absence detection in surgical videos" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,861, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time surgical tool presence/absence detection in surgical videos" was invented by Meysam Torabi (Union City, Calif.), Varun Kejriwal Goel (Santa Clara, Calif.), Danyal Fer (Oakland, Calif.), Jocelyn Barker (San Jose, Calif.), Amer Ghanem (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Richard W. Timm (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide various techniques and systems for building machine-learning surgical tool presence/absence detection models for processing surgical videos and predicting whether a surgical tool is present or ...