US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on July 15 for "Deep-learning-based real-time remaining surgery duration (rsd) estimation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,416, issued on July 15, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deep-learning-based real-time remaining surgery duration (rsd) estimation" was invented by Mona Fathollahi Ghezelghieh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jocelyn Elaine Barker (San Jose, Calif.) and Pablo Eduardo Garcia Kilroy (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the process receives a current frame of the endoscope video at a current time of the live surgical session, wherein the current time is among a sequence of prediction time points for making continuous RSD predictions during the live surgical session. The process next randomly sa...