US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Sept. 9 for "Operating room objects and workflow tracking using depth cameras" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,367, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Operating room objects and workflow tracking using depth cameras" was invented by Yiming Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bernhard Fuerst (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Genevieve Foley (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide systems and techniques for tracking workflow inside an operating room (OR) by identifying and tracking target objects, such as a patient bed or a surgical table in the OR. In one aspect, a process for identifying and tracking a target object in an OR begins by receiving a depth image among a sequen...