ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,950, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Machine learning based medical procedure analysis with interpretable model confidence rankings" was invented by Conor Perreault (Atlanta) and Aneeq Zia (Lahore, Pakistan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solution for an ML-based medical procedure analysis with interpretable model confidence rankings is disclosed. The solution can include a system having one or more processors, coupled with memory. The system can receive a plurality of input features associated with a prediction for a video stream that captures a procedure performed with ...