ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. RE50,871, issued on April 21, was assigned to DIGISTAIN INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Infrared imaging of biological material" was invented by Christopher Clement Phillips (London) and Hemmel Amrania (Harrow Middlesex, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mapping a tissue characteristic in a tissue sample comprises gathering infrared absorption data from the sample at selected wavelengths, and determining, from the infrared absorption data, a first measure of the amount of power or energy absorbed attributable to an amide moiety and a second measure of the amount of power or energy absorbed attributable to a phosphate moiet...