US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 3 for "Method for estimating a quantity of a blood component in a fluid receiver and corresponding error" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,275, issued on June 3, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Method for estimating a quantity of a blood component in a fluid receiver and corresponding error" was invented by Siddarth Satish (Portola Valley, Calif.), Andrew Hosford (Idaho Falls, Idaho), Kevin J. Miller (Mountain View, Calif.), Milton McColl (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Juan C. Aragon (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for communicating estimated blood loss parameters of a patient to a user, the method comprising: receiving data representative of an image, of a fluid receiver; automatically detecting a region within the image...