US Patent Issued to NSV on July 15 for "Automated process for controlling in vivo examination of the cervix and collecting image data related thereto" (Pennsylvania, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,245, issued on July 15, was assigned to NSV INC. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Automated process for controlling in vivo examination of the cervix and collecting image data related thereto" was invented by Soham Pathak (Allentown, Pa.), Ankita Shastri (Bothell, Wash.), Neha Kumar (Macungie, Pa.) and Jeremy Lim (Emmaus, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A colposcopy instrument (which includes a display screen) is controlled by a specific set of steps defined in software to follow a defined protocol for performing a colposcopy examination. The software is utilized to also control the features of an included camera so that consistent digital imag...