ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,586, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Systems and methods for generating three-dimensional measurements using endoscopic video data" was invented by Cole Kincaid Hunter (Helena, Mont.), Brian Fouts (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Sanskruti Maske (Gondia, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are systems and methods for performing three-dimensional measurements of a surgical space using two-dimensional endoscopic images. According to an aspect, video data taken from an endoscopic imaging device can be used to generate a three-dimensional model of the surgical space represented by the video ...