ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,491, issued on June 17, was assigned to DEUTSCHES KREBSFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM STIFTUNG DES OFFENTLICHEN RECHTS (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Method and system for augmented imaging in open treatment using multispectral information" was invented by Lena Maier-Hein (Heidelberg, Germany), Sebastian Josef Wirkert (Heidelberg, Germany), Anant Suraj Vemuri (Heidelberg, Germany), Leonardo Antonio Ayala Menjivar (Heidelberg, Germany), Silvia Seidlitz (Heidelberg, Germany), Thomas Kirchner (Heidelberg, Germany) and Tim Adler (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of generating augmented images of tissue of a pat...