ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,755, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ACTIV Surgical Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for medical imaging" was invented by Anderson Mach (Boston), Stephen Tully (Boston), Vasiliy Buharin (Boston), Liam O'Shea (Boston) and Allen Bates (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for medical imaging. An imaging device may comprise a housing, an insertion portion of housing, the insertion portion may have an elongated optical axis, where a first optical signal and a second optical signal may be transmitted along the elongated optical axis, where the first optical signal and the second o...