US Patent Issued to The United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs on Jan. 13 for "Automatic pressure ulcer measurement" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,899, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Automatic pressure ulcer measurement" was invented by Matthew J. Peterson (Tampa, Fla.), Linda J. Cowan (Tampa, Fla.), Kimberly S. Hall (Tampa, Fla.), Dmitry Goldgof (Tampa, Fla.), Sudeep Sarkar (Tampa, Fla.), Chih-Yun Pai (Tampa, Fla.), Hunter Morera (Tampa, Fla.) and Yu Sun (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for imaging and analysis are described. Accurate pressure ulcer measurement is critical in assessing the effectiveness of treatment. However, the traditional measu...