US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on May 27 for "Systems, methods, and media for capsule-based multimode endoscopy" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,553, issued on May 27, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Systems, methods, and media for capsule-based multimode endoscopy" was invented by Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kanwarpal Singh (Weymouth, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, systems, methods, and media for capsule-based multimode endoscopy are provided. In some embodiments, a probe for capsule-based multimode endoscopy is provided, the probe comprising: a rigid capsule; a flexible tether coupled to a proximal end of the capsule; a rotatable reflective surface disposed within the capsule; a static ball lens disposed withi...