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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2023
Verb Surgical Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mona Fathollahi Ghezelghieh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mohammad Hasan Sarhan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jocelyn Barker, San Jose, CA (US);
Lela Dimonte, Mountain View, CA (US);
Auris Health, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A process for classifying a surgeon's technical skill in performing a surgery receives a tool-motion track comprising a sequence of detected tool motions of a surgeon performing a surgery with a surgical tool. A sequence of multi-channel feature matrices to mathematically represent the tool-motion track is then generated. Next, a one-dimensional (1D) convolution operation is performed on the sequence of multi-channel feature matrices to generate a sequence of context-aware multi-channel feature representations of the tool-motion track. The sequence of context-aware multi-channel feature representations is subsequently processed by a transformer model to generate a skill classification, wherein the transformer model is trained to focus on a subset of tool motions in the sequence of detected tool motions that are most relevant to the skill classification. Other aspects are also described and claimed.