ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,001, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for efficient transmission of imaging metadata" was invented by Benjamin Hyman Feingold (San Francisco) and Brandon B. Hunter (Hollister, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for transmission of imaging metadata comprises a sensor configured to capture audiovisual data and a data transmission device. The data transmission device receives captured audiovisual data from the first sensor and receives metadata, wherein the metadata is metadata of a first type. The data transmission device generates a data structure corresponding to a firs...