US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Oct. 20 for "Devices, systems, and methods for object depth estimation" (Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,822, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for object depth estimation" was invented by Kian S. Lim (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Longquan Chen (Lexington, Mass.) and Niraj Prasad Rauniyar (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical systems and related methods useful to estimate the depth of a target are described. The system may include a medical device that includes a handle and a shaft, the medical device also including an imager, a processor, and at least one laser source coupled to a first laser fiber and a second laser fiber. The first and second...