US Patent Issued to Washington University, California Institute of Technology on May 13 for "Photoacoustic near-infrared spectroscopic endoscopy" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,742, issued on May 13, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis) and California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Photoacoustic near-infrared spectroscopic endoscopy" was invented by Lihong Wang (Pasadena, Calif.), Konstantin Maslov (Pasadena, Calif.), Methodius Tuuli (St. Louis), Molly Stout (St. Louis), George Macones (St. Louis), Junhui Shi (Pasadena, Calif.), Peinan Zhao (St. Louis), Yuan Qu (St. Louis) and Peng Hu (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various aspects, a photoacoustic endoscopic probe and methods for measuring a hydration of a connective tissue in vivo using the photoacoustic endoscopic ...