US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 1 for "Obtaining images for use in determining one or more properties of skin of a subject" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,099, issued on July 1, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Obtaining images for use in determining one or more properties of skin of a subject" was invented by Arnoldus Johannes Martinus Jozeph Ras (Mierlo, Netherlands), Walter Hermans (Overpelt, Belgium), Willem Auke Westerhof (Drachten, Netherlands), Babu Varghese (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Willem Minkes (Emmeloord, Netherlands), Sahil Wadhwa (Venlo, Netherlands) and Martijn Van Zutphen (Marum, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for obtaining images for use in determining one or more properties of skin of a subject, the apparatus c...