ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,030, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AccuVein Inc. (Medford, N.Y.).

"Device for detecting and illuminating the vasculature using an FPGA" was invented by Joseph Zott (Menlo Park, Calif.), Fred Wood (Medford, N.Y.), Dmitriy Yavid (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Seung P. Kim (San Francisco) and Klaus Zietlow (Piedmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser based vascular illumination system utilizing a FPGA for detecting vascular positions, processing an image of such vasculature positions, and projecting the image thereof onto the body of a patient."

The patent was filed on Nov. 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/991,924.

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