US Patent Issued to Covidien on Feb. 3 for "Edge handling methods for associated depth sensing camera devices, systems, and methods" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,867, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Edge handling methods for associated depth sensing camera devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Paul S. Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Dominique Jacquel (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Philip Smit (Hamilton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to the field of medical monitoring, and, in particular, to non-contact detecting and monitoring of patient breathing. Systems, methods, and computer readable media are described for calculating a change in depth of a region of interest (ROI) on a patient. In some embodimen...