US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for assessing surgical skill" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,615, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Systems and methods for assessing surgical skill" was invented by Satyanarayana S. Vedula (Baltimore), Shameema Sikder (Chevy Chase, Md.), Gregory D. Hager (Baltimore), Tae Soo Kim (Baltimore), Chien-Ming Huang (Baltimore), Anand Malpani (Baltimore), Kristen H. Park (Baltimore) and Bohua Wan (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining one or more metrics of a surgical task being performed by a surgeon based at least partially upon a type of the surgical task being performed and a video of the surgical task being performed. The...