US Patent Issued to Briteseed on April 7 for "System and method for determining vessel size and/or edge" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,989, issued on April 7, was assigned to Briteseed LLC (Chicago).

"System and method for determining vessel size and/or edge" was invented by Amal Chaturvedi (San Jose, Calif.), Hariharan Subramanian (Northbrook, Ill.), Jonathan Gunn (Chicago), Mayank Vijayvergia (Chicago), Shetha Shukair (Chicago) and Paul Le Rolland (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system used to determine a size of a vessel within a region proximate to a working end of a surgical instrument includes at least one light emitter disposed at the working end, an array of light sensors disposed opposite the at least one light emitter, the arra...