US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on July 14 for "Efficient and interactive bleeding detection in a surgical system" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,021, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Efficient and interactive bleeding detection in a surgical system" was invented by Wenyi Zhao (Weston, Fla.), Catherine J. Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jonathan M. Sorger (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bleeding detection system may receive, from an image capture system during a surgical procedure, a first frame of data of a scene of a surgical site and identify, based on the first frame, a region of blood in the scene. The system may receive, from the image capture system subsequent to receiving the first frame, a s...