US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 1 for "Method and system for selective spectral illumination for optical image guided surgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,042, issued on April 1, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Method and system for selective spectral illumination for optical image guided surgery" was invented by Maie A. St. John (Oakland, Calif.), Peter A. Pellionisz (Mountain View, Calif.) and Oscar Stafsudd (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for selective spectral illumination in an operating room includes a housing, at least one light source disposed within the housing, the at least one light source configured to emit electromagnetic radiation at a plurality of wavelengths, and a controller coupled to the at leas...