ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,932, issued on July 7, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Anatomical measurement in a surgical system" was invented by Rami Azmi Nimer Abukhalil (West Chester, Ohio), Kenneth Fernandez Prada (Santa Clara, Calif.), Amer G. Ghanem (West Chester, Ohio) and Mary Lynn Dwyer-Gaddis (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For anatomy measurement in a surgical system, a machine-learned model is used to determine the location or length. For example, in RYGB, the machine-learned model indicates how much of the bowel has been pulled or run. As another RYGB example, the machine-learned model indicates a length...