ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,803, issued on April 21, was assigned to UTECH PRODUCTS INC. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Multithreading video processing with cloud services to detect and analyze landmarks and objects during a clinical procedure" was invented by Rakesh Madan (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Zohair Hussain (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for processing a video stream captured during a clinical procedure. A method includes receiving image data from a scope during a procedure; forwarding the image data to a display as the scope is inserted into a patient; forwarding the image data to a cloud service to identify a landmark in the...