US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on Jan. 27 for "Flexible optical imaging bands and optical imaging methods for the diagnosis and monitoring of systemic lupus erythematosus in finger joints" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,031, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Flexible optical imaging bands and optical imaging methods for the diagnosis and monitoring of systemic lupus erythematosus in finger joints" was invented by Andreas H. Hielscher (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Alessandro Marone (New York), Ioannis Kymissis (New York), Youngwan Kim (New York) and Anca D. Askanase (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) can be diagnosed by affixing a plurality of light sources and a plurality of light detectors against the subject's body near a joint, and sequentially ...