US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe on July 14 for "Laparoscopic image manipulation method and system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,586, issued on July 14, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Laparoscopic image manipulation method and system" was invented by Sascha Jaskola (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manipulating laparoscopic images taken during a laparoscopic procedure using a video laparoscope. The method including: analyzing the laparoscopic images relative to visibility of an object; calculating a placement of a pre-generated 3D model of the object relative to the location of the object in the laparoscopic images; generating a visual representation of the 3D model; comparing at least one of color in...