US Patent Issued to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute on Feb. 24 for "Portable edge AI-assisted diagnosis and quality control system for gastrointestinal endoscopy" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,279, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Portable edge AI-assisted diagnosis and quality control system for gastrointestinal endoscopy" was invented by XueJian He (Hong Kong), Lu Wang (Hong Kong), Ping Shun Leung (Hong Kong), Shangping Liu (Hong Kong), Chi Hin Samuel Chow (Hong Kong), XinDong Liu (Hong Kong) and Manu Bangalore Nagaraj (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a decision-support system for gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are set up to perform decision-support tasks according to endoscopic images. ...