US Patent Issued to KANEKA on March 4 for "Light therapy diagnostic device and method for operating the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,416, issued on March 4, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Light therapy diagnostic device and method for operating the same" was invented by Toshihiko Uto (Settsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light therapy diagnostic device comprising a shaft, and an optical waveguide disposed in a lumen of the shaft and being movable forward and backward in a longitudinal direction, wherein: the optical waveguide guides a first light and a second light; the shaft has a lateral emission window which allows the first light and the second light to be emitted toward a lateral direction and a distal emission window which allows the...