US Patent Issued to NICHE BIOMEDICAL on Oct. 7 for "Bleeding sensor for a patients gastrointestinal tract" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,492, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NICHE BIOMEDICAL INC. (Los Angeles).

"Bleeding sensor for a patients gastrointestinal tract" was invented by Alexander Barnes Baldwin (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Yi-Kai Lo (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that can employ a bleeding sensor that uses an optical mechanism to detect blood in the patients GI tract are described. The bleeding sensor includes a substrate holding a centrally-located light detector with a broad sensitivity spectrum and at least two light emitters positioned radially around the centrally-located light detector, each light emitter confi...