US Patent Issued to Apella Technology on June 23 for "Detection and evaluation of a surgical time-out confirming surgical details from captured video of an operating room" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,066, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apella Technology Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Detection and evaluation of a surgical time-out confirming surgical details from captured video of an 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 which a phase ...