US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on June 3 for "Apparatus, method and computer-accessible medium for obtaining tissue samples" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,077, issued on June 3, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Apparatus, method and computer-accessible medium for obtaining tissue samples" was invented by Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Mass.), Joseph Gardecki (Acton, Mass.) and Chia-Pin Liang (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method can be provided for obtaining at least one anatomical sample. For example, it is possible to provide and insert a housing into a body or provided on a hydrated anatomical structure. Further, with a source, it is possible to emit an electromagnetic radiation which causes at least the anatomical sample(s) to atta...