US Patent Issued to Apella Technology on April 7 for "Tracking operating room phase from captured video of the operating room" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,254, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apella Technology Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Tracking operating room phase from captured video of the operating room" was invented by Cameron Alexander Marlow (Menlo Park, Calif.), David Michael Schummers (Oakland, Calif.) and Jordan Stuart Tuttle (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple image capture devices are located in an operating room to capture video of the entirety of the operating room. A surgical tracking server applies one or more models to the captured video to determine states of objects in the operating room. From the determined states, the surgical tracking system determ...