US Patent Issued to The Florida International University Board of Trustees on Oct. 7 for "Devices and methods for in vivo tissue diagnosis" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,489, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Devices and methods for in vivo tissue diagnosis" was invented by Wei-Chiang Lin (Miami) and Anamika Prasad (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for in vivo tissue diagnosis are provided. Optical spectroscopy can be utilized to characterize the morphological and/or compositional characteristics of in vivo tissue, and an indentation method can be used to measure the mechanical characteristics of the tissue. These intrinsic properties can then be used to detect disease and/or injury development in the in...