US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 8 for "Systems and methods for inline fluid characterization" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,415, issued on July 8, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for inline fluid characterization" was invented by Mayank Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Keng-Tsai Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Siddarth Satish (Redwood City, Calif.) and Andrew T. Hosford (Idaho Falls, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs a method for characterizing passage of a patient fluid through a conduit. The method includes quantifying flow of fluidic content through a conduit, where the fluidic content includes a patient fluid, estimating a concentration of a fluid component of the patient fluid in the fluidic content, and char...