Patents by Inventor Joelle K. Barral

Joelle K. Barral has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11941050
    Abstract: Systems and methods for segmenting surgical videos are disclosed. One example method includes receiving, by a processor of a computing device, surgical video, the surgical video comprising at least a sequence of video frames of a surgical procedure; in response to receiving an identification of a video frame, generating, by the processor, a bookmark based on the video frame; associating, by the processor, the bookmark with the video frame; and storing, by the processor, the bookmark in a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Martin Habbecke, Michal Levin, Antons Krumins, Thomas Teisseyre
  • Publication number: 20230410511
    Abstract: A method for comparing videos of a surgical procedure is disclosed. The method comprising selecting a plurality of videos from a surgical video database. Each of the plurality of videos including video data of a first surgical procedure comprising a plurality of surgical steps. The method further including identifying a first surgical step included in the plurality of surgical steps within a first video segment in each of the plurality of videos. The method also including warping the first video segment to standardize a dimension of the first video segment in each of the plurality of videos.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, German Bauer
  • Patent number: 11776272
    Abstract: A method for comparing videos of a surgical procedure is disclosed. The method comprising selecting a plurality of videos from a surgical video database. Each of the plurality of videos including video data of a first surgical procedure comprising a plurality of surgical steps. The method further including identifying a first surgical step included in the plurality of surgical steps within a first video segment in each of the plurality of videos. The method also including warping the first video segment to standardize a dimension of the first video segment in each of the plurality of videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, German Bauer
  • Publication number: 20230252075
    Abstract: A system includes a display, and a database including surgical videos, images of organs in a human body obtained from a medical imaging device, and images of disease in a human body obtained from the medical imaging device. A controller including a processor is coupled to memory, the database, and the display, and the memory stores information that when executed by the processor causes the system to perform operations. For example, the processor may determine first organ information from the images of the organs, and first disease information from the images of the disease. The processor my calculate a similarity score between the first organ information and the first disease information and second disease information and second organ information indexed to the surgical videos. The processor selects one or more of the surgical videos based on the similarity score, and displays the surgical videos on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Martin Habbecke, Joëlle K. Barral, Lin Yang, Xing Jin
  • Patent number: 11657087
    Abstract: A system includes a display, and a database including surgical videos, images of organs in a human body obtained from a medical imaging device, and images of disease in a human body obtained from the medical imaging device. A controller including a processor is coupled to memory, the database, and the display, and the memory stores information that when executed by the processor causes the system to perform operations. For example, the processor may determine first organ information from the images of the organs, and first disease information from the images of the disease. The processor my calculate a similarity score between the first organ information and the first disease information and second disease information and second organ information indexed to the surgical videos. The processor selects one or more of the surgical videos based on the similarity score, and displays the surgical videos on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Martin Habbecke, Joëlle K. Barral, Lin Yang, Xing Jin
  • Patent number: 11596483
    Abstract: Robotic surgery systems and methods of surgical robot operation are provided. A method of surgical robot operation includes moving a surgical instrument through a tissue using the surgical robot, where the surgical robot attempts to move the surgical instrument to a desired position. The method further includes measuring an actual position of the surgical instrument, and calculating a difference between the actual position and the desired position. The actual position of the surgical instrument is adjusted to the desired position using the surgical robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Blake Hannaford
  • Patent number: 11501871
    Abstract: A system includes a microscope configured to magnify a pathology sample, a camera positioned to record magnified pathology images from the microscope, and a display configured to show the magnified pathology images. A processing apparatus is coupled to the camera, and the display, and the processing apparatus includes instructions that when executed by the processing apparatus cause the system to perform operations, including: identifying, using a machine learning algorithm, one or more regions of interest in the magnified pathology images; and alerting, using the display, a user of the microscope to the one or more regions of interest in the magnified pathology images while the pathology sample is being magnified with the microscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventor: Joëlle K. Barral
  • Patent number: 11464582
    Abstract: Image guided surgery includes capturing a primary modality image of a surgical field of a patient with a camera system, obtaining a secondary modality image of the surgical field registered to the primary image, generating a surgical guidance image based at least in part upon the secondary modality image, and projecting the surgical guidance image onto the patient. The surgical guidance image presents visual augmentations on or over the patient to inform a medical practitioner during a surgical procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Blake Hannaford, Eden Rephaeli, Christine Denise Ching
  • Patent number: 11344374
    Abstract: A user interface system includes one or more controllers configured to move freely in three dimensions, where the one or more controllers include an inertial sensor coupled to measure movement of the one or more controllers, and output movement data including information about the movement. The user interface system further includes a processor coupled to receive the movement data, where the processor includes logic that, when executed by the processor, causes the user interface system to perform operations, including receiving the movement data with the processor, identifying an unintentional movement in the movement data with the processor, and outputting unintentional movement data that identifies the unintentional movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Kamilla Tekiela, Joëlle K. Barral, Caitlin Donhowe
  • Publication number: 20220108450
    Abstract: A surgical simulator for simulating a surgical scenario comprises a display system, a user interface, and a controller. The controller includes one or more processors coupled to memory that stores instructions that when executed cause the system to perform operations. The operations include generating simulated surgical videos, each representative of the surgical scenario. The operations further include associating simulated ground truth data from the simulation with the simulated surgical videos. The ground truth data corresponds to context information of at least one of a simulated surgical instrument, a simulated anatomical region, a simulated surgical task, or a simulated action. The operations further include annotating features of the simulated surgical videos based, at least in part, on the simulated ground truth data for training a machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Xing Jin, Joëlle K. Barral, Lin Yang, Martin Habbecke, Gianni Campion
  • Patent number: 11250726
    Abstract: A simulator for simulating soft body deformation includes a display system, a user interface, and a controller. The controller includes one or more processors coupled to memory that stores instructions that when executed cause the system to perform operations. The operations include generating a simulated soft body having a shape represented, at least in part, by a plurality of nodes. The operations further include determining, with at least a first machine learning model, a displacement of individual nodes included in the plurality of nodes in response to a simulated force applied to the simulated soft body. The operations further include rendering a deformation of the simulated soft body in substantially real time in response to the simulated force based, at least in part, on the displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Gianni Campion, Martin Habbecke, Xing Jin
  • Patent number: 11232556
    Abstract: A surgical simulator for simulating a surgical scenario comprises a display system, a user interface, and a controller. The controller includes one or more processors coupled to memory that stores instructions that when executed cause the system to perform operations. The operations include generating simulated surgical videos, each representative of the surgical scenario. The operations further include associating simulated ground truth data from the simulation with the simulated surgical videos. The ground truth data corresponds to context information of at least one of a simulated surgical instrument, a simulated anatomical region, a simulated surgical task, or a simulated action. The operations further include annotating features of the simulated surgical videos based, at least in part, on the simulated ground truth data for training a machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Xing Jin, Joëlle K. Barral, Lin Yang, Martin Habbecke, Gianni Campion
  • Patent number: 11224486
    Abstract: A robotic system includes a communication system coupled to communicate with one or more external devices that include first user preferences. The robotic system also includes memory storing a database including second user preferences. A controller is coupled to the user interface, the communication system, and the memory, and the controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the robotic system to perform operations. Operations may include retrieving the first user preferences using the communication system; retrieving the second user preferences from the database; resolving conflicts between the first user preferences and the second user preferences to create a final set of user preferences; and configuring the robotic system with the revised set of user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Martin Habbecke, James Shuma, Robin Thellend, Miles Eldon
  • Publication number: 20210406551
    Abstract: A method for comparing videos of a surgical procedure is disclosed. The method comprising selecting a plurality of videos from a surgical video database. Each of the plurality of videos including video data of a first surgical procedure comprising a plurality of surgical steps. The method further including identifying a first surgical step included in the plurality of surgical steps within a first video segment in each of the plurality of videos. The method also including warping the first video segment to standardize a dimension of the first video segment in each of the plurality of videos.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, German Bauer
  • Patent number: 11157743
    Abstract: A method for comparing videos of a surgical procedure is disclosed. The method comprising selecting a plurality of videos from a surgical video database. Each of the plurality of videos including video data of a first surgical procedure comprising a plurality of surgical steps. The method further including identifying a first surgical step included in the plurality of surgical steps within a first video segment in each of the plurality of videos. The method also including warping the first video segment to standardize a dimension of the first video segment in each of the plurality of videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, German Bauer
  • Publication number: 20210282870
    Abstract: Robotic surgery systems and methods of surgical robot operation are provided. A method of surgical robot operation includes moving a surgical instrument through a tissue using the surgical robot, where the surgical robot attempts to move the surgical instrument to a desired position. The method further includes measuring an actual position of the surgical instrument, and calculating a difference between the actual position and the desired position. The actual position of the surgical instrument is adjusted to the desired position using the surgical robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Blake Hannaford
  • Publication number: 20210200804
    Abstract: Systems and methods for segmenting surgical videos are disclosed. One example method includes receiving, by a processor of a computing device, surgical video, the surgical video comprising at least a sequence of video frames of a surgical procedure; in response to receiving an identification of a video frame, generating, by the processor, a bookmark based on the video frame; associating, by the processor, the bookmark with the video frame; and storing, by the processor, the bookmark in a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Martin Habbecke, Michal Levin, Antons Krumins, Thomas Teisseyre
  • Patent number: 11026754
    Abstract: A method of surgical robot operation includes moving a surgical instrument through a medium using the surgical robot, where the surgical robot attempts to move the surgical instrument to a desired position. The method further includes measuring an actual position of the surgical instrument, and calculating a difference between the actual position and the desired position. The actual position of the surgical instrument is adjusted to the desired position using the surgical robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Blake Hannaford
  • Patent number: 10956492
    Abstract: Systems and methods for segmenting surgical videos are disclosed. One example method includes receiving, by a processor of a computing device, surgical video, the surgical video comprising at least a sequence of video frames of a surgical procedure; in response to receiving an identification of a video frame, generating, by the processor, a bookmark based on the video frame; associating, by the processor, the bookmark with the video frame; and storing, by the processor, the bookmark in a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Martin Habbecke, Michal Levin, Antons Krumins, Thomas Teisseyre
  • Patent number: 10835344
    Abstract: A system for video-assisted surgery includes one or more displays, a memory including at least one preoperative image, and a camera coupled to capture a video. A controller is coupled to the memory, the camera, and the one or more displays, and the controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the system to perform a variety of operations. The system may capture a video of a surgical area, including anatomical features, using the camera, and display the video of the surgical area on the one or more displays. The system may also display the at least one preoperative image on the one or more displays at the same time as the video. The location of the anatomical features shown in the video is displayed as an accentuated region on the at least one preoperative image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Martin Habbecke, Eric Johnson, Francois Brahic