US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on July 22 for "Deep disengagement detection during telesurgery" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,563, issued on July 22, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deep disengagement detection during telesurgery" was invented by Meysam Torabi (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User input device (UID) disengagement-detection techniques based on real-time time-series data processing and deep learning. A long short-term memory (LSTM) network-based classifier is trained based on the acquired time-series data of UID motions including both surgical motions and docking motions. The classifier is then used during teleoperation sessions to monitor the movements of UIDs, and continuously classify the real-t...