US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 27 for "Medical device imaging systems and methods" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,093, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Medical device imaging systems and methods" was invented by Peter Douglas Colin Inglis (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-synchronized video imaging system includes an environmental camera that acquires environmental images of a patient while a video laryngoscope acquires airway images of the patient. A monitor receives the airway images from the video laryngoscope and the environmental images from the environmental camera. The monitor time-synchronizes the airway images and the environmental images to each other to generate a combined view vi...