US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK on March 18 for "Diagnostic method and system with optical and temperature sensors for imaging and mapping fluorescence intensities of tissue" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,191, issued on March 18, was assigned to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK.

"Diagnostic method and system with optical and temperature sensors for imaging and mapping fluorescence intensities of tissue" was invented by Ralph Sebastian Dacosta (Etobicoke, Canada), Brian C. Wilson (Toronto) and Kai Zhang (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for outputting a representation of a wound in tissue comprises a housing configured to removably receive at least a portion of a wireless communication device. At least one light source coupled to the housing is configured to emit excitation light to illuminate a target which includ...