US Patent Issued to Baylor College of Medicine, William Marsh Rice University on Nov. 3 for "End expandable optical fiber bundle" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,394, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Baylor College of Medicine (Houston) and William Marsh Rice University (Houston).

"End expandable optical fiber bundle" was invented by Elena Petrova (Houston), Sharmila Anandasabapathy (Houston) and Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Bellaire, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and corresponding methods for an end-expandable optical fiber bundle are described herein. In one aspect, an endoscope can include a plurality of optical fibers each having a proximal end and a distal end; at least one camera coupled to the proximal ends of the plurality of optical fibers; and a sleeve enveloping the plur...