ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,202, issued on April 29, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Device and method for tissue identification" was invented by Christian Huber (Muehlheim, Germany), Dieter Weisshaupt (Immendingen, Germany), Christoph Rothweiler (Donaueschingen, Germany), Detlef Russ (Renningen, Germany), Oliver Fugger (Ulm, Germany), Raimund Hibst (Erbach, Germany), Alwin Kienle (Blaustein, Germany) and Florian Foschum (Neu-Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring temperature includes emitting light with an illumination spectrum into a tissue with at least one illumination, receiving the remission of light with a r...