ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,255, issued on May 26, was assigned to Theator Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Analyzing surgical videos to determine group compliance with surgical guidelines" was invented by Tamir Wolf (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dotan Asselmann (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable medium aspects for using surgical video analysis for improving compliance with medical guidelines and improving processing of medical bills, medical malpractice claims, and insurance claims are described. The aspects utilize intracorporeal video footage, image analysis, and notifications to optimize correspondences among m...