US Patent Issued to DIGITAL SURGERY on May 19 for "Detection of surgical states and instruments" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,121, issued on May 19, was assigned to DIGITAL SURGERY Ltd. (London).

"Detection of surgical states and instruments" was invented by Imanol Luengo Muntion (London), Danail V. Stoyanov (London), Andre Chow (London), Petros Giataganas (Croydon, Great Britain), David P. Owen (London), Maria Grammatikopoulou (London), Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla (London) and Maria Ruxandra Robu (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect includes a computer-implemented method that accesses input data including spatial data and/or sensor data temporally associated with a video stream of a surgical procedure. One or more machine-learning models predict a s...