ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,149, issued on March 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for transmitting medical video data in a bandwidth constrained environment" was invented by James Kenneth Alexanderson (Coppell, Texas), Eric Alexander Hereford (North Richland Hills, Texas) and Sean Victor Hastings (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for transmitting medical imaging data across a transmission channel that may be bandwidth constrained. In one or more examples, the system and methods can include transmitting the medical imaging data across a channel using a first specif...