US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on June 24 for "Energy tool activation detection in surgical videos using deep learning" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,310, issued on June 24, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Energy tool activation detection in surgical videos using deep learning" was invented by Meysam Torabi (Union City, Calif.), Varun Goel (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jocelyn Elaine Barker (San Jose, Calif.), Rami Abukhalil (Santa Clara, Calif.), Richard W. Timm (Cincinnati) and Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein include a process for detecting energy tool activations. The process can begin by receiving a surgical video of a surgical procedure involving energy tool activations. The process the...