US Patent Issued to Covidien on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for video-based monitoring of vital signs" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,097, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for video-based monitoring of vital signs" was invented by Dominique Jacquel (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Paul Stanley Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and David Foo (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of medical monitoring, and in particular non-contact, video-based monitoring of pulse rate, respiration rate, motion, and oxygen saturation. Systems and methods are described for capturing images of a patient, producing intensity signals from the images, filtering those signals to f...