US Patent Issued to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION on June 9 for "Quantification of Barrett's oesophagus" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,333, issued on June 9, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Quantification of Barrett's oesophagus" was invented by Sharib Ali (Oxford, Great Britain), Jens Rittscher (Oxford, Great Britain), Barbara Braden (Oxford, Great Britain), James Edward East (Oxford, Great Britain) and Adam Bailey (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An area of Barrett's oesophagus in a subject's oesophagus is quantified from a video image signal representing a video image of the subject's oesophagus captured using a camera of an endoscope. Depth estimation on the frames to derive depth maps in respect of...