ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,843, issued on April 14, was assigned to NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY (Chiayi County, Taiwan).

"Method for converting endoscope images to narrow band images" was invented by Hsiang-Chen Wang (Chiayi City, Taiwan), Yu-Ming Tsao (Chiayi County, Taiwan) and Arvind Mukundan (Chiayi County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method for converting endoscope images to narrow band images. Firstly, obtaining a reference image data and a narrow band reference image data of a reference object, for obtaining a hyperspectral reference image data, a narrow band conversion parameter and a first light sourc...