ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,290, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Offset illumination of a scene using multiple emitters in a hyperspectral, fluorescence, and laser mapping imaging system" was invented by Joshua D. Talbert (Cottonwood Heights, Utah) and Donald M. Wichern (Ogden, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Offset illumination using multiple emitters in a fluorescence imaging system is described. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The emitter comprises a first emitter and a ...