US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on Nov. 4 for "Monitoring treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) using diffuse optical imaging" (New York, California, Florida, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,241, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Monitoring treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) using diffuse optical imaging" was invented by Andreas H. Hielscher (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Christopher J. Fong (New York), Jennifer Hoi (Belmont, Calif.), Hyun K. Kim (Cresskill, N.J.) and Michael Khalil (Miami Lake, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of modules are simultaneously positioned at locations that correspond to different angiosomes. Each of these modules has a front surface shaped and dimensioned for contacting a person's skin, a plurality of differe...