US Patent Issued to Verily Life Sciences on Feb. 3 for "Segmentation generation for image-related functions" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,854, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Segmentation generation for image-related functions" was invented by George Leifman (Zikhron Yaaqov, Israel), Amit Aides (Haifa, Israel), Tomer Golany (Haifa, Israel), Daniel Freedman (Haifa, Israel) and Ehud Rivlin (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system may perform an image-related function using a segmentation (e.g., an image mask) that has been generated by a custom segmentation machine learning model. To begin, the system may receive image data corresponding to a surgical scene including a background that includes an anatomical feat...