US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 6 for "Touchless volume waveform sampling to determine respiration rate" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,414, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Touchless volume waveform sampling to determine respiration rate" was invented by Dean Montgomery (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Andre Antunes (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Paul S. Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a camera system, memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the camera system and memory. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain image data and determine a visualization mask based on pixels associated with respiration. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a bounding box b...