US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Aug. 25 for "Protection of personally identifiable content in a video stream generated by an imaging device during a medical procedure" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,561, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Protection of personally identifiable content in a video stream generated by an imaging device during a medical procedure" was invented by Yidan Qin (Chicago), Maximilian H. Allan (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative image processing system is configured to apply a video stream to a machine learning model, the video stream generated by an imaging device during a medical procedure performed with respect to a patient; classify, based on an output of the machine learning mod...