US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital on Oct. 28 for "System for and method of real-time nonrigid mosaicking of laparoscopy images" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,162, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"System for and method of real-time nonrigid mosaicking of laparoscopy images" was invented by Haoyin Zhou (Boston) and Jayender Jagadeesan (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for nonrigid mosaicking of images, including: obtaining, using a processor, a plurality of images including a first image and a second image of a sample, the first image and the second image containing information from partially overlapping portions of the sample; identifying, using the processor, at least one feature match between the first image and the second ...