ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,352, issued on June 17, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"System, device and method for turbidity analysis" 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 images of a target site within a living body and a processor configured to determine one or more image metrics for each one of a plurality of image frames captured over a time span, analyze changes in the image metrics over the time span, and determine a turbidi...