ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,024, issued on May 13, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Robust operating room video anonymization based on ensemble deep learning" was invented by Meysam Torabi (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various face-detection and human de-identification systems and techniques based on deep learning. In one aspect, a process for de-identifying people captured in an operating room (OR) video is disclosed. This process can begin by receiving a sequence of video frames from an OR video. Next, the process applies a first machine-learning face detector based on a first deep-learning model to...