ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,053, issued on July 14, was assigned to COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY (New York).

"Technologies for three-dimensional spectroscopic imaging of tissue properties" was invented by Hrebesh Molly Subhash (Somerset, N.J.) and Benny E. Urban Jr. (Somerset, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are disclosed for an imaging device that may indicate at least one property of a tissue sample. The device may project light on the tissue sample. The device may control a capture of hyperspectral fluorescence image data of the tissue sample. The device may control a capture of spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) image data of the tissue s...