ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,786, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Medical imaging device for spatially resolved recording of multispectral video data" was invented by Axel Kulcke (Tuttlingen, Germany), Hannes Kohler (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Amadeus Holmer (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical imaging device configured to spatially resolve recording of multispectral video data of an examination area of a patient including a light source having multiple optical emitters with different wavelengths in the visible and NIR spectral range. The light source has an emitter whose wavelength lies ...