US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 3 for "Systems and methods for determining timing for fluorescence based blood flow assessment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,179, issued on June 3, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for determining timing for fluorescence based blood flow assessment" was invented by Vivian Wing Yan Wong (Vancouver, Canada), Justin Winston Junyick Choy (Vancouver, Canada), Jorgen Walle-Jensen (Vancouver, Canada) and Hyo Jin Kang (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing an assessment related to blood flow in tissue includes receiving fluorescence imaging data associated with movement of a fluorescence imaging agent through a target, determining at least one characteristic associated with a current stage of th...