US Patent Issued to DIGITAL SURGERY on July 7 for "Quantifying variation in surgical approaches" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,243, issued on July 7, was assigned to DIGITAL SURGERY Ltd. (London).

"Quantifying variation in surgical approaches" was invented by Helena Elizabeth Anne Johnston (London) and Carole RJ Addis (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect includes a computer-implemented method that quantifies variations in surgical approaches to medical procedures. Surgical videos documenting multiple cases of a medical procedure are analyzed to identify variations in surgical approaches used by service providers when performing the medical procedure. According to some aspects, the variation in surgical approaches is quantified."

The patent was fi...