ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,449, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Depth sensing visualization modes for non-contact monitoring" was invented by Paul S. Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Dominique Jacquel (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Philip Smit (Hamilton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention 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 a region of interest (ROI) on a patient and assigning one or more visual indicators to...