US Patent Issued to KCI Manufacturing UnLtd. on July 29 for "Method to detect and measure a wound site on a mobile device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,948, issued on July 29, was assigned to KCI Manufacturing UnLtd. Co. (Westmeath, Ireland).

"Method to detect and measure a wound site on a mobile device" was invented by Chester Edlund (San Antonio), Brian Lawrence (San Antonio), Christopher J. Sandroussi (San Antonio) and James Laird (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for measuring a wound site including an image capture device, a touchscreen, a vibration motor, and a processor. The image capture device may be configured to capture a digital image and capture a depth map associated with the digital image. The processor may be configured to determine abounding box o...