US Patent Issued to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on Dec. 30 for "Combined fluorescence and laser speckle contrast imaging system and applications of same" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,944, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Combined fluorescence and laser speckle contrast imaging system and applications of same" was invented by Emmanuel A. Mannoh (Nashville, Tenn.) and Anita Mahadevan-Jansen (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined auto-fluorescence imaging and laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) system to enable intra-operative parathyroid identification and viability assessment with the same tool. The system includes a light source for emitting a beam of light to illuminate a target of interest, and an imaging head positioned over the target of inte...