ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,304, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to 123IV Inc. (New Rochelle, N.Y.).

"Intraoperative probe for cancer diagnosis and treatment" was invented by Allen B. Chefitz (New Rochelle, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoperative probe combines Raman spectroscopy, shear wave elastography (SWE), and photodynamic therapy (PDT), preferably in a single hand-held device with real-time machine learning analysis. The machine learning independently analyzes and then fuses the data from different modalities for real-time cancer diagnostic predictions. The approach herein leverages simultaneous (or near-simultaneous) collection and real-tim...