US Patent Issued to Alcon on Aug. 25 for "Obtaining ophthalmic information using multicolor endoillumination with hyperspectral imaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,306, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Obtaining ophthalmic information using multicolor endoillumination with hyperspectral imaging" was invented by Ashok Burton Tripathi (Santa Barbara, Calif.), John Park (Irvine, Calif.) and Qing Xiang (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, a system for obtaining ophthalmic information includes an illumination device having an optical fiber; a hyperspectral illumination source; a controller; a modulation device; and an imaging device. The modulation device is configured to receive first source light generated from the hyperspect...