US Patent Issued to Auris Health on Sept. 8 for "Video-based surgical skill assessment using tool tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,389, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Video-based surgical skill assessment using tool tracking" was invented by Mona Fathollahi Ghezelghieh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mohammad Hasan Sarhan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jocelyn Barker (San Jose, Calif.) and Lela Dimonte (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for classifying a surgeon's technical skill in performing a surgery receives a tool-motion track comprising a sequence of detected tool motions of a surgeon performing a surgery with a surgical tool. A sequence of multi-channel feature matrices to mathematically represent th...