US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus, systems, and methods for intraoperative instrument tracking and information visualization" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,147, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for intraoperative instrument tracking and information visualization" was invented by Felix Jonas Bork (Schnuerpflingen, Germany), Risto Kojcev (Cupertino, Calif.), Bernhard Adolf Fuerst (Mountain View, Calif.) and Berk Gonenc (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for intraoperative tracking and visualization are disclosed. A current minimally invasive surgical (MIS) instrument pose may be determined based on a live intraoperative input video stream comprising a current image frame capture...