US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Center, Pendar Technologies on May 13 for "Resonance Raman spectroscopy for evaluating mitochondrial function" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,247, issued on May 13, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston) and Pendar Technologies LLC (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Resonance Raman spectroscopy for evaluating mitochondrial function" was invented by Lois Smith (West Newton, Mass.), Bertan D. Cakir (Brookline, Mass.), John Padraic Romfh (Cambridge, Mass.), Peili Chen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Daryoosh Vakhshoori (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for using Raman Resonance Spectroscopy to evaluate metabolic and oxygenation status of the eye are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, metabolic mapping of the eye may be performed by aligni...