ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,496, issued on March 17, was assigned to Theator Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Intraoperative video review" was invented by Noam Chulev (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tamir Wolf (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dotan Asselmann (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable media related to providing intraoperative video review are disclosed. They involve receiving a plurality of video frames from a surgical video of an ongoing surgical procedure. Stored data based on prior surgical procedures may be accessed and at least one expected future event in the ongoing surgical procedure may be predicted based on the plurali...