US Patent Issued to BH2 INNOVATIONS on March 17 for "Systems and methods for identifying the nature of defects in medical scopes, and determining servicing and/or future use of the scopes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,077, issued on March 17, was assigned to BH2 INNOVATIONS INC. (Newbury Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identifying the nature of defects in medical scopes, and determining servicing and/or future use of the scopes" was invented by Salmaan Hameed (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen J. Budill (San Francisco) and Michael S. Humason (Newbury Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems identify defects in a medical device and tailor a protocol, namely, further recommended action, for the device based on a combination of the nature of the defects and procedural data including patient data and/or medical instrument reco...