US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 10 for "Imaging system and method for fluorescence guided surgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,952, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Imaging system and method for fluorescence guided surgery" was invented by Paul Steinbach (San Diego), Quyen T. Nguyen (La Jolla, Calif.) and Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging systems for fluorescence guided surgery are provided. An imaging system comprises a light source unit for providing one or more illumination and excitation lights to a target, a detection unit for detecting reflectance and fluorescence from the target, an optical train for directing the one or more illumination and excita...