ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,790, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).
"Apparatus and methods of identifying tube assembly type" was invented by Rayal Raj Prasad Nalam Venkat (Princeton, N.J.), Benjamin S. Pollack (Jersey City, N.J.), Yao-Jen Chang (Princeton, N.J.), Venkatesh NarasimhaMurthy (Hillsborough, N.J.), Vivek Singh (Princeton, N.J.) and Ankur Kapoor (Plainsboro, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying a tube type. The method includes capturing one or more pixelated images of a cap affixed to a tube; identifying a color of one or more pixels of the pixilated image of the cap; iden...