ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,488, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to 14336186 CANADA CORP. (EXCLARO) (Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada).
"System and methods for real time raman spectroscopy for cancer detection" was invented by Rajeev Yadav (Laval, Canada), Jean-Philippe Tremblay (Montreal) and Rajeev Agarwal (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are Raman systems and methods for detection of cancerous tissues in tumor margins in real time during surgical procedures. The systems include a laser excitation source, a probe, a spectrometer and a camera specifically designed for use of Raman spectroscopy in real time during surgery. The invent...