ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,399, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Given Imaging LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Systems, devices, apps, and methods for capsule endoscopy procedures" was invented by Eyal Dekel (Haifa, Israel) and Roni Keynan (Hadera, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, methods for capsule endoscopy procedures are disclosed. A swallowable capsule apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the swallowable capsule apparatus at least to perform: capturing in-vivo images over time of at least a portion of a gastrointestinal tr...