ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,643, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SafetySpect Inc. (Grand Forks, N.D.).

"System and method for assessing biological tissue" was invented by Fartash Vasefi (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Kenneth Edward Barton (Palm City, Fla.), Nicholas Bennett MacKinnon (Salt Spring Island, Canada), Abdolrahim Zandi (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Kouhyar Tavakolian (Grand Forks, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assessing biological tissue is disclosed. The system contains an illumination hardware arrangement comprising transmission and sensing hardware, the illumination hardware arrangement configured to inspect a biological tissue using ...