US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Jan. 7 for "Method and system for anonymizing raw surgical procedure videos" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,189,821, issued on Jan. 7, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for anonymizing raw surgical procedure videos" 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 verification techniques to ensure that anonymized surgical procedure videos are indeed free of any personally-identifiable information (PII). In a particular aspect, a process for verifying that an anonymized surgical procedure video is free of PII is disclosed. This process can begin by receiving a surgical video corr...