US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe on Dec. 2 for "Method, software program and system for detecting image irregularities in video endoscopic instrument produced images" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,444, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method, software program and system for detecting image irregularities in video endoscopic instrument produced images" was invented by Andreas Mueckner (Schwarzenbek, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an image irregularity in one or more still images or video images produced by an endoscopic instrument. The method including: producing the one or more still images or video images; transmitting the one or more still images or video images to a processor comprising hardware; detecting, with the processor, a presence or an abs...