US Patent Issued to Stryker on Nov. 3 for "System and method for estimating a quantity of a blood component in a fluid canister" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,195, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"System and method for estimating a quantity of a blood component in a fluid canister" was invented by Siddarth Satish (Portola Valley, Calif.), Ali Zandifar (San Francisco) and Kevin J. Miller (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating blood loss of patient fluid within a fluid canister. A camera may automatically capture one or more images of the fluid canister based on a detected change in volume of patient fluid within the fluid canister exceeding a threshold. The image is analyzed determine the volume of the patient fluid, and...