ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,261, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH (Tuebingen, Germany).
"Device and method for tissue identification" was invented by Alexander Neugebauer (Moessingen, Germany) and Sascha Dammeier (Tuebingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A theragnostic system includes a surgical station and a storage and processing device that contains data in a suitable storage in which patient data and treatment data, e.g. in form of electrical and optical features, are combined. The electrical features are derived from electrical parameters of the voltage and the current with which an instrument is supplied. The optical fe...