US Patent Issued to Cision Vision on Sept. 22 for "Short-wave infrared based imaging" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,697, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cision Vision Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Short-wave infrared based imaging" was invented by Zhongming Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a laparoscope including a first port, a second port, and an optical system. The optical system includes a first port coupling, a shortwave infrared (SWIR) sensor coupling configured to couple to a SWIR sensor, and a visible-light sensor coupling configured to couple to a visible-light sensor. The optical system is configured to optically couple to at least the second port of the laparoscope via the first port coupling....