ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,806, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NIHON KOHDEN Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical photometer and medical photometry system" was invented by Yoshinori Ueda (Tokorozawa, Japan), Naoki Kobayashi (Tokorozawa, Japan), Kazumasa Ito (Tokorozawa, Japan), Hideki Fujisaki (Tokorozawa, Japan) and Teiji Ukawa (Tokorozawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical photometer includes a signal producing section that produces a first control signal to emit a first light having a first wavelength, a second control signal to emit a second light having a second wavelength, a third control signal to emit a third light having a third wavelength, and a f...