US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on Sept. 30 for "Imaging system and method for enhanced visualization of near surface vascular structures" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,833, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Imaging system and method for enhanced visualization of near surface vascular structures" was invented by Stavros Demos (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for visualizing a sub-dermal structure. The method involves illuminating an imaged area of interest (AOI) including sub-dermal regions thereof with near-infrared (NIR) light. The NIR light is passed through a first optical system for controlling at least one of spectral and polarization properties thereof prior to illumin...