ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,841, issued on April 22, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).
"Robotic surgical safety via video processing" was invented by Caitlin Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.), Joelle Barral (Mountain View, Calif.) and Xing Jin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method for improving robotic surgical safety via video processing includes identifying, during a robotic surgical procedure, one or more surgical tools using one or more images of the surgical procedure captured by a camera, the robotic surgical procedure employing a robotic surgical device controlling the one or more identified surgical tools; pre...