US Patent Issued to Stryker on May 13 for "Systems and methods for masking endoscopic images" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,027, issued on May 13, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for masking endoscopic images" was invented by Kundan Krishna (Surrey, Canada) and Amit A. Mahadik (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable storage medium techniques for masking endoscopic images are disclosed. A system receives an input digital image and applies one or more denoising algorithms and one or more contour detection algorithms to detect a plurality of contours in the image. A contour having the largest area is identified. A smallest circular area enclosing the largest area contour is...