US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 1 for "Image processing systems and methods of using the same" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,990, issued on July 1, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Image processing systems and methods of using the same" was invented by Kirsten Viering (Newton, Mass.), George Wilfred Duval (Sudbury, Mass.) and Louis J. Barbato (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a color image using a monochromatic image sensor. The method includes sequentially illuminating a surface in a plurality of colors, one color at a time. The monochromatic image sensor captures a plurality of image frames of the surface based on the plurality of colors. The plurality of image frames are identified,...