US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Oct. 28 for "Method and apparatus for recording microscopic images from within a living organism using an implantable device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,458, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Method and apparatus for recording microscopic images from within a living organism using an implantable device" was invented by Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Mass.), Timothy N. Ford (Allston, Mass.), Robert Carruth (Arlington, Mass.), Tao Wu (Cambridge, Mass.), Chulho Hyun (Cambridge, Mass.), Weina Lu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kengyeh Ken Chu (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary apparatus and method can be provided. For example, using at least one light source first arrangement, it is possible to provide pulses of light to at leas...