US Patent Issued to Given Imaging on Sept. 8 for "Estimating the adequacy of a procedure" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,739, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Given Imaging LTD. (Yoqneam, Israel).

"Estimating the adequacy of a procedure" was invented by Dori Peleg (Kiryat Bialik, Israel), Dov Eilot (Yokneam, Israel) and Yossi Tsadok (Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for estimating adequacy of a capsule endoscopy (CE) procedure includes: accessing a plurality of images of at least a portion of a gastrointestinal tract (GIT) captured by a CE imaging device during a CE procedure; accessing a plurality of characteristic measures associated with the plurality of images; determining an adequacy measur...