US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 1 for "Method of robust surface and depth estimation" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,123, issued on July 1, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Method of robust surface and depth estimation" was invented by Niraj Prasad Rauniyar (Plymouth, Minn.), Robert J. Riker (Sewickley, Pa.) and Longquan Chen (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to estimating the distance of a body structure from a medical device are disclosed. An example method includes illuminating the body structure with a light source of a medical device, capturing a first input image of the body structure with a digital camera positioned on the medical device, representing the first image...