US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 24 for "Scope modifications to enhance scene depth inference" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,799, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Scope modifications to enhance scene depth inference" was invented by Niraj Prasad Rauniyar (Plymouth, Minn.), Robert J. Riker (Sewickley, Pa.), Longquan Chen (Andover, Mass.) and Jeffrey A. Meganck (N Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system and methods are presented for determining a size of a viewed object through a monocular endoscope. The system includes an imaging device mounted on the endoscope, at least one light source disposed in a fixed position relative to the imaging device, and a processor configured to re...