US Patent Issued to Stryker on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for assessing fluids from a patient" (California, Illinois, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,924, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for assessing fluids from a patient" was invented by Siddarth Satish (Portola Valley, Calif.), Peter Hyoung (Elmhurst, Ill.), Kevin J. Miller (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew Hosford (Idaho Falls, Idaho) and Eric Hsieh (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assessing a flow of fluids suctioned from a patient. The flow of fluids may be divided according to a flow division ratio. An image of a first portion of the fluids may be evaluated to determine an estimated blood component quantity as a representative fra...