US Patent Issued to Stryker on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods of relative onset fluorescence delay for medical imaging" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,019, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods of relative onset fluorescence delay for medical imaging" was invented by Jorgen Walle-Jensen (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods that can assess whether there is an issue with tissue perfusion, which can help a clinician better predict any surgical complications that may arise. Fluorescence images of the tissue of a subject can continuously be observed until a portion of the tissue that first perfused with blood containing one or more fluorescent agents is at peak fluorescence. Any areas...