US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for surgical data censorship" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,567, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for surgical data censorship" was invented by Ziheng Wang (Sandy Springs, Ga.), Kiran Bhattacharyya (Atlanta), Samuel Bretz (Atlanta), Anthony Jarc (Johns Creek, Ga.), Xi Liu (Peachtree Corners, Ga.), Andrea Villa (Ben Lomond, Calif.) and Aneeq Zia (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various of the disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for processing surgical data to facilitate further downstream operations. For example, some embodiments may include machine learning systems trained to recognize whethe...