US Patent Issued to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, The General Hospital, PARTNERS HEALTHCARE on Oct. 28 for "Endoscopic imaging using nanoscale metasurfaces" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,477, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.), The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and PARTNERS HEALTHCARE (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Endoscopic imaging using nanoscale metasurfaces" was invented by Hamid Pahlevaninezhad (Cambridge, Mass.), Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad (Cambridge, Mass.), Yao-Wei Huang (Cambridge, Mass.), Zhujun Shi (Cambridge, Mass.), Melissa Suter (Cambridge, Mass.) and Federico Capasso (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic imaging device (e.g., a catheter) comprises a light-transmitting tubing, at least one optical fiber disposed in the light-...