US Patent Issued to Clear Biopsy on June 30 for "Colorization of medical devices in robotic surgery using AI and machine learning" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,439, issued on June 30, was assigned to Clear Biopsy LLC (St. Joseph, Mo.).

"Colorization of medical devices in robotic surgery using AI and machine learning" was invented by Steven Poplaw (St. Joseph, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for intraoperative medical instrument recognition may receive, from an imaging device positioned inside of a patient, a stream of intraoperative three-dimensional (3D) imaging data that includes anatomy of a patient and a medical instrument. The system may apply a material recognition algorithm to identify one or more objects formed of a predetermined material present in the intraoperative 3D...