ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,065, issued on March 11, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Quality assessment in video endoscopy" was invented by Jens Rittscher (Headington, Great Britain), Sharib Ali (Headington, Great Britain), Adam Bailey (Headington, Great Britain), James Edward East (Headington, Great Britain), Barbara Braden (Headington, Great Britain), Felix Zhou (Headington, Great Britain) and Xin Lu (Headington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis apparatus analyses a video image signal comprising successive frames of imaging an endoscopy procedure. A machine learning block analyses the video ...