US Patent Issued to Stryker on Dec. 30 for "Methods and systems for characterizing tissue of a subject" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,735, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for characterizing tissue of a subject" was invented by Lina Gurevich (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to medical imaging, and more specifically to machine-learning techniques to analyze and generate medical images to characterize tissue of a subject (e.g., to aid diagnosis and/or treatment of diseases). An exemplary method of displaying risk assessment of a tissue of a subject comprises: receiving a fluorescence image of the tissue of the subject; providing the fluorescence image to a...