Patent Application Titled 'Method and Apparatus for Detecting Missed Areas during Endoscopy' Published Online (USPTO 20210267441)

摘要

2021 SEP 21 (NewsRx) - By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily - According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventors Hadley, Mark (Los Altos, CA, US); Wang, Kang-Huai (Saratoga, CA, US); Wilson, Gordon C. (San Francisco, CA, US); Wu, Chenyu (Sunnyvale, CA, US), filed on February 16, 2021, was made available online on September 2, 2021. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Devices for imaging body cavities or passages in vivo are known in the art and include endoscopes and autonomous encapsulated cameras. Endoscopes are flexible tubes that pass into the body through an orifice or surgical opening, typically into the esophagus via the mouth or into the colon via the rectum. An image is formed at the distal end using a lens and transmitted to the proximal end, outside the body, either by a lens-relay system or by a coherent fiber-optic bundle. Today, colonoscopy is still the gold standard for colon screening to prevent colon cancer. However colonoscopy is not perfect and sometimes the polyp may be missed.