US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 15 for "Stone identification methods and systems" (Massachusetts, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,150, issued on July 15, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Stone identification methods and systems" was invented by Peter J. Pereira (Mendon, Mass.), Michael S. H. Chu (Brookline, Mass.), Elizabeth Stokley (Baltimore), David Salto (Hopedale, Mass.) and Candace Rhodes (Walpole, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of stone identification methods and systems are described. According to one aspect, an exemplary method comprises: transmitting to a processing unit, with an imaging element mounted on a distal end of a scope, image data about a stone object inside a body cavity; generating from the...