Patents by Inventor Joëlle K. Barral
Joëlle 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).
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Publication number: 20250064535Abstract: A system for robot-assisted surgery includes an image sensor and a display. The system further includes a controller coupled to the image sensor and the display, where the controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the system to perform operations. The operations may include acquiring first images of a surgical procedure with the image sensor, and analyzing the first images with the controller to identify a surgical step in the surgical procedure. The operations may further include displaying second images on the display in response to identifying the surgical step; the second images may include at least one of a diagram of human anatomy, a preoperative image, an intraoperative image, or an annotated image of one of the first images.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Martin Habbecke, Xing Jin, Lin Yang
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Patent number: 12175756Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Joëlle K. Barral, German Bauer
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Patent number: 12102397Abstract: A system for robot-assisted surgery includes an image sensor and a display. The system further includes a controller coupled to the image sensor and the display, where the controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the system to perform operations. The operations may include acquiring first images of a surgical procedure with the image sensor, and analyzing the first images with the controller to identify a surgical step in the surgical procedure. The operations may further include displaying second images on the display in response to identifying the surgical step; the second images may include at least one of a diagram of human anatomy, a preoperative image, an intraoperative image, or an annotated image of one of the first images.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Martin Habbecke, Xing Jin, Lin Yang
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Patent number: 11941050Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLCInventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Martin Habbecke, Michal Levin, Antons Krumins, Thomas Teisseyre
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Publication number: 20230410511Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, German Bauer
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Patent number: 11776272Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Joëlle K. Barral, German Bauer
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Publication number: 20230252075Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Martin Habbecke, Joëlle K. Barral, Lin Yang, Xing Jin
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Patent number: 11657087Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Martin Habbecke, Joëlle K. Barral, Lin Yang, Xing Jin
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Patent number: 11596483Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Blake Hannaford
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Patent number: 11501871Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventor: Joëlle K. Barral
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Patent number: 11464582Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Blake Hannaford, Eden Rephaeli, Christine Denise Ching
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Patent number: 11344374Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Kamilla Tekiela, Joëlle K. Barral, Caitlin Donhowe
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Publication number: 20220108450Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Xing Jin, Joëlle K. Barral, Lin Yang, Martin Habbecke, Gianni Campion
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Patent number: 11250726Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Gianni Campion, Martin Habbecke, Xing Jin
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Patent number: 11232556Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Xing Jin, Joëlle K. Barral, Lin Yang, Martin Habbecke, Gianni Campion
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Patent number: 11224486Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Martin Habbecke, James Shuma, Robin Thellend, Miles Eldon
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Publication number: 20210406551Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Joëlle K. Barral, German Bauer
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Patent number: 11157743Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Joëlle K. Barral, German Bauer
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Publication number: 20210282870Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Blake Hannaford
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Publication number: 20210200804Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Joëlle K. Barral, Martin Habbecke, Michal Levin, Antons Krumins, Thomas Teisseyre