US Patent Issued to CHECK-CAP on March 18 for "Radiation capsule for bowel disease imaging and localize drug delivery" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,251, issued on March 18, was assigned to CHECK-CAP LTD. (Isfiya, Israel).

"Radiation capsule for bowel disease imaging and localize drug delivery" was invented by Yoav Kimchy (Haifa, Israel) and Alex Ovadia (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging capsule including, a radiation source, a collimator that provides a collimated beam from the radiation source, at least one detector configured to detect particles resulting from X-ray fluorescence and/or Compton backscattering in response to the collimated beam to reconstruct images of a user's gastrointestinal tract, wherein the imaging capsule is configured to identify a...