US Patent Issued to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY on June 17 for "Wound analyzing system and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,493, issued on June 17, was assigned to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Wound analyzing system and method" was invented by Chih-Lung Lin (Tainan, Taiwan) and Meng-Hsuan Wu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound analyzing system is provided. An illumination device provides visible light and infrared light. An image sensor captures an infrared-light image, a red-light image and a visible-light image about a wound. A processor performs an image segmentation algorithm on the visible-light image to obtain a wound part and a background part, and classifies the wound part into one of multiple types. The pro...