ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,223, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DIGITAL SURGERY Ltd. (London).

"Compression of catalogue of surgical video" was invented by Danail V. Stoyanov (London), Imanol Luengo Muntion (Bilbao, Spain), Petros Giataganas (London) and Guathier Camille Louis Gras (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data captured during a surgical procedure can include multiple video streams, such as from an endoscopic camera, an external camera, etc., along with data from one or more instruments used during the surgical procedure. Transferring the surgical data over communication networks, and storing the surgical data, is therefore resource-intensive,...