ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,193, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BLUEDROP MEDICAL Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Skin inspection device for identifying abnormalities" was invented by Simon Kiersey (Galway, Ireland), Gavin Corley (Ennis, Ireland) and Christopher Murphy (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skin inspection device for identifying abnormalities is described. The device comprises a transparent panel having an inspection area; an array of thermochromic liquid crystal (TLC) formations provided on the transparent panel which are operable to change colour in response to a change of temperature; one or more image capture devices having a wide angle lens ...