US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on April 8 for "Discrimination of tissues using a fast infrared probe" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,471, issued on April 8, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Discrimination of tissues using a fast infrared probe" was invented by James Coe (Worthington, Ohio), Heather Allen (Columbus, Ohio), Charles Hitchcock (Upper Arlington, Ohio) and Edward W. Martin (Delaware, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods utilizing an infrared probe and discriminating software to rapidly discriminate abnormal tissue processes from normal tissue during surgery, physical examination of in-situ lesions, and in the assessment of biopsy and resected tissue specimens. Examples demonstrate discr...