US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 14 for "Video-based patient monitoring systems and associated methods for detecting and monitoring breathing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,051, issued on July 14, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Video-based patient monitoring systems and associated methods for detecting and monitoring breathing" was invented by Dominique Jacquel (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Paul S. Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and David Ming Hui Foo (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of medical monitoring, and, in particular, to non-contact detecting and monitoring of patient breathing. Systems, methods, and computer readable media are described for calculating a change in depth of regions in one or more regions of int...