US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on July 22 for "Method and system for extracting an actual surgical duration from a total operating room (OR) time of a surgical procedure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,970, issued on July 22, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for extracting an actual surgical duration from a total operating room (OR) time of a surgical procedure" 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: "Embodiments described herein provide various examples of a system for extracting an actual procedure duration composed of actual surgical tool-tissue interactions from an overall procedure duration of a surgical procedure on a patient. In one aspect, the system is configured to obtain the actual pro...