US Patent Issued to AccuVein on Oct. 21 for "Scanned laser vein contrast enhancer with image averaging" (New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,825, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AccuVein Inc. (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.).

"Scanned laser vein contrast enhancer with image averaging" was invented by Ron Goldman (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), Stephen P. Conlon (Glen Mills, Pa.), Vincent Luciano (Shoreham, N.Y.) and Fred Wood (Medford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vein imaging device includes: first and second lasers, a scanner, photo detector, memory, and microprocessor. The first laser emits a beam of light at a first wavelength, and the second laser emits a beam of visible light. The scanner is configured to scan the light from the first and second lasers onto the ta...