US Patent Issued to STERIS Instrument Management Services on June 24 for "Systems and methods for standalone endoscopic objective image analysis" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,683, issued on June 24, was assigned to STERIS Instrument Management Services Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Systems and methods for standalone endoscopic objective image analysis" was invented by Maciej Dybiec (Cooper City, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An objective of an endoscope can be evaluated by collecting a series of differently focused images and digitally stitching them together to obtain a final image for the endoscope that can be then evaluated. Movable optics and/or a camera can be used to collect the series of differently focused images. Image processing algorithms can be used to evaluate the collected images in terms ...