ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,499, issued on March 24, was assigned to Integro Theranostics LLC (Chesterfield, Mo.).

"System and method for data visualization and user interfaces of fluorescently tagged tissue in a surgical field" was invented by Jeff M. Garibaldi (St. Louis), Nicholas R. Staten (Kirkwood, Mo.), Abbas Dhilawala (Houston) and Maya KeShil Waterland (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for visualizing a surgical field containing a plurality of discrete regions of fluorescing tissue is disclosed. The method includes imaging a portion of the surgical field; displaying an image of the portion of the surgical field captured...