US Patent Issued to ViOptix on Feb. 3 for "Tissue oxygen saturation determined by Monte Carlo and iterative techniques" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,062, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ViOptix Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Tissue oxygen saturation determined by Monte Carlo and iterative techniques" was invented by Kate LeeAnn Bechtel (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and H. Keith Nishihara (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining oxygen saturation includes emitting light from sources into tissue; detecting the light by detectors subsequent to reflection; and generating reflectance data based on detecting the light. The method includes determining a first subset of simulated reflectance curves from a set of simulated reflectance curves stored in a tissue oximet...