ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,219, issued on June 3, was assigned to ACCUVEIN INC. (Medford, N.Y.).
"Vein scanner with limited photodiode FOV moving synchronously with scanned laser light" was invented by Fred Wood (Medford, N.Y.), Vincent Luciano (Shoreham, N.Y.) and Ron Goldman (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vein imager includes: a laser emitting a light beam in a first optical path; and scanner directing the beam to form a spot of light on the target, and scanning the beam to move the spot rapidly on the target. An optical element bounces the beam of light from the first optical path onto a second optical path, directing the beam at ...