US Patent Issued to New Jersey Institute of Technology on May 13 for "Intelligent surgical marker" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,799, issued on May 13, was assigned to New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, N.J.).

"Intelligent surgical marker" was invented by Xuan Liu (Berkeley Heights, N.J.) and Yuwei Liu (Harrison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical marker systems and methods for delineating a lesion margin of a subject are provided. An example system includes a handheld probe device configured to capture an optical coherence tomography (OCT) image and a processor coupled to a memory. The handheld probe device includes a handheld probe including a fiber-optic probe assembly and a marker assembly. The processor is configured to: segment, by a n...