US Patent Issued to Verily Life Science on Aug. 4 for "Detecting events during a surgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,943, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Verily Life Science LLC (Dallas).

"Detecting events during a surgery" was invented by Caitlin Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.), Joelle Barral (Mountain View, Calif.), Zhi Yuan Foo (Mountain View, Calif.) and Niranjan Sridhar (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method for detecting events during a surgery includes receiving surgical video of a surgery comprising a plurality of video frames; identifying, by a first trained machine-learning ("ML") model, an event during a surgical procedure based on the surgical video; determining, by the first trained ML model, a subset of ...