US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 28 for "Methods and systems for characterizing fluids from a patient" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,199, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for characterizing fluids from a patient" was invented by Siddarth Satish (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Kevin Miller (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for characterizing fluids from a patient. A time series of images of a conduit are received, and a conduit image region in the images is identified. The conduit image region may include a shallow section and/or a deep section. The shallow section includes a dimension of the conduit along an optical axis of the camera such that opacity of the fluids from redness associ...