US Patent Issued to The University Court of the University of Edinburgh on May 27 for "Imaging system and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,556, issued on May 27, was assigned to The University Court of the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

"Imaging system and method" was invented by Kevin Dhaliwal (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Michael G. Tanner (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Robert R. Thomson (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a medical device configured to be positioned at least partially within a scattering medium, the medical device comprising at least one optical fibre or other waveguide having a plurality of light-emitting regions arranged along at least part of the length of the at least one optical fibre or...