US Patent Issued on Sept. 16 for "External filter holder arrangement in operative microscopes for fluorescence guided surgery" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,773, issued on Sept. 16.

"External filter holder arrangement in operative microscopes for fluorescence guided surgery" was invented by Arvind Sukumaran (Trichy, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an external filter holder arrangement that comprises a pair of filter holding slots to hold two different filters such as barrier filter and excitation filter to thereby fit into any type of xenon source light microscope. The external filters holder design can be used in any type of operative microscopes by altering the dimensions of the slots and the holding mechanism. The external filter holder 100 uses v...