ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,646, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Device and method for measuring tissue temperature" was invented by Christian Huber (Muehlheim, Germany), Christoph Rothweiler (Donaueschingen, Germany), Detlef Russ (Renningen, Germany), Oliver Fugger (Ulm, Germany) and Raimund Hibst (Erbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method for measuring temperature. At least one illumination device emits light with an illumination spectrum into tissue. At least one detector receives the diffuse reflection of the light with a remission spectrum from the tissue. The detector converts the remission...