US Patent Issued to CSATS on Aug. 11 for "Computer system for detecting a tool location in surgical video frame by generating gaussian point on the tool location and predicting surgical actions" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,889, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CSATS Inc. (Seattle).

"Computer system for detecting a tool location in surgical video frame by generating gaussian point on the tool location and predicting surgical actions" was invented by Bokai Zhang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for computer vision-based surgical workflow recognition using natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Surgical video of surgical procedures may be processed and analyzed, for example, to achieve workflow recognition. Surgical phases may be determined based on the surgical video and segmented to g...