ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,945, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Digital Surgery Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Video overlay synchronization for a digital surgical stereoscope" was invented by David S. Immel (Goleta, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video overlay synchronization for a digital surgical stereoscope is disclosed herein. In an example, a system provides synchronization by detecting how an image changes between frames. The image change corresponds to detecting the regular and predictable movement of human tissue, such as pulsing of a blood vessel. Peaks or maximum extents of tissue movement is tracked overtime to determine an estimation of...