US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO on Jan. 27 for "Hemoglobin measurement by retinal imaging" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,060, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Hemoglobin measurement by retinal imaging" was invented by Arjen Amelink (Gouda, Netherlands), Mathivanan Damodaran ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) and Johannes Fitzgerald De Boer (Amstelveen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for measuring hemoglobin concentration (cHb). A retinal tissue having blood vessels is illuminated by light including two isosbestic wavelengths (Lambda1,Lambda2). The isosbestic wavelengths(Lambda1,Lambda2) correspond to isosbestic point...