US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 8 for "System and method for endoscopic video enhancement, quantitation and surgical guidance" (Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,240, issued on July 8, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"System and method for endoscopic video enhancement, quantitation and surgical guidance" was invented by Niraj Prasad Rauniyar (Plymouth, Minn.), Robert J. Riker (Sewickley, Pa.) and Timothy Paul Harrah (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic system includes an endoscopic imager configured to capture image frames of a target site within a living body and a processor configured to apply a spatial transform to a preliminary set of image frames, the spatial transform converting the image frames into cylindrical coordinates; c...