US Patent Issued to Digital Surgery Systems on Oct. 6 for "System, method, and apparatus for tracking and labeling surgery tools" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,777, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Digital Surgery Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"System, method, and apparatus for tracking and labeling surgery tools" was invented by Kyle Kam (San Mateo, Calif.) and Mannat Rana (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to surgical image processing and update by a computing device. The method disclosed herein uses a deep learning model to detect distal ends of tools in an image from a microscope and processes the image to output detections that are optionally displayed around the distal ends of the tools. The method disclosed herein also uses Kalman filters and camer...