ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,766, issued on July 7, was assigned to Anaut Inc. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Recording medium, method for generating learning model, image processing device, and surgical operation assisting system" was invented by Naoki Kitamura (Tokyo), Yuta Kumazu (Yokohama, Japan) and Nao Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory recording medium recoding a program that causes a computer to execute processing includes: acquiring an operation field image obtained by imaging an operation field of an endoscopic surgery; inputting the acquired operation field image to a learning model trained to output information on a connective tissu...