US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 29 for "System and method for estimating extracorporeal blood volume in a physical sample" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,976, issued on July 29, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"System and method for estimating extracorporeal blood volume in a physical sample" was invented by Siddarth Satish (Portola Valley, Calif.), Kevin J. Miller (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ali Zandifar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating extracorporeal blood volume in at least a portion of a fluid canister. A light source may be activated, and an image of the fluid canister is captured with an optical sensor. The image may be a color frame of a video stream. A color-related feature is extracted from at least a portion of the image. ...