US Patent Issued to TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on June 9 for "Endoscopic system and method of estimating distance in endoscopic image" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,341, issued on June 9, was assigned to TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Taipei City, Taiwan) and NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Endoscopic system and method of estimating distance in endoscopic image" was invented by Po-Wen Lu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Xiu-Zhi Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yen-Lin Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating a distance in an endoscopic image is implemented by an endoscopic system. The method includes steps of: irradiating a lesion of a subject and obtaining an image of the lesion and a scale of the endoscopic system as a to-be-analyzed image...