US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 6 for "Method for estimating blood component quantities in surgical textiles" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,512, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Method for estimating blood component quantities in surgical textiles" was invented by Siddarth Satish (Portola Valley, Calif.), Kevin J. Miller (Mountain View, Calif.) and Andrew T. Hosford (Idaho Falls, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing a surgical textile. A depth image and a color image of the surgical textile is acquired. One or more processors analyze a depth map of the depth image to apply one or more image classifiers. Blood information is extracted from pixels of the color image if the depth image satisfies the classifier(s). The ...