ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,717, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Color extrapolation from monochrome image sensor" was invented by Kirsten Viering (Newton, Mass.), Louis J. Barbato (Franklin, Mass.) and George Wilfred Duval (Sudbury, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a sensor, a processor, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing imaging instructions. The sensor captures a first raw image into a first frame of raw pixel values including a plurality of first pixel values that represent pixels of a first color and a plurality of second pixel values that represent pixel...