ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,255, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Jmees Inc. (Kashiwa, Japan).
"Surgery assisting system, surgery assisting method, and surgery assisting program" was invented by Hiroki Matsuzaki (Kashiwa, Japan), Masayasu Tanase (Kashiwa, Japan) and Nobuyoshi Takeshita (Kashiwa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgery assisting system includes an image acquisition unit capturing endoscope images, a surgical technique selection reception unit for selecting a surgical technique, an organ area estimation unit utilizing an organ area estimation model to predict the position and range of a potentially damaged organ based on the selected sur...