US Patent Issued to Alcon on Jan. 20 for "Light-efficient multispectral fluorescence imaging" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,055, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Light-efficient multispectral fluorescence imaging" was invented by Lu Yin (Keller, Texas), Vignesh Suresh (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Ramesh Sarangapani (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, a system, a computer-implemented method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for light efficient fluorescence imaging. The retina is flashed with broadband light and returned light is imaged after passing through one or more filters, such as notch filers, low-pass filters, and high-pass filters. Images may be captured with a sing...