ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,295, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and method for correcting for errors dependent upon spectral characteristics of tissue" was invented by Scott J. Mcgonigle (Loanhead, Great Britain), Jacob D. Dove (Lafayette, Colo.), Clark R. Baker Jr. (Newman, Calif.), Keith A. Batchelder (Boulder, Colo.), Christopher J. Meehan (Denver), David M. VandeRiet (Lafayette, Colo.), Chekema N. Prince (Morganville, N.J.) and Linden A. Reustle (Milliken, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for correcting for errors dependent upon spectral characteristics of tiss...