US Patent Issued to DIGITAL SURGERY on Oct. 27 for "Detection of surgical phases and instruments" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,274, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to DIGITAL SURGERY Ltd. (London).

"Detection of surgical phases and instruments" was invented by Imanol Luengo Muntion (London), Danail Stoyanov (London), Andre Chow (London), Petros Giataganas (Croydon, Great Britain), Maria Grammatikopoulou (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 state of the surgical procedure based on the input data. The...