ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,054, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Dendrite Imaging Inc (Burlingame, Calif.).

"Advanced nervous tissue imaging system and method" was invented by Fernando Dip (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Raul J. Rosenthal (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nervous tissue imaging system includes a pair of matched filters, including an excitation light filter that only passes excitation light in a first wavelength range from 365 nm to 400 nm, and a received light detection filter that only passes received light in a second wavelength range from 433 nm to 450 nm. An endoscope is connected with a first source optical train for guiding excitat...