US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Feb. 24 for "Integrated fiber for optical shape sensing and spectral tissue sensing" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,423, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Integrated fiber for optical shape sensing and spectral tissue sensing" was invented by Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Gert Wim 'T Hooft (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Martinus Bernardus Van Der Mark (Best, Netherlands), Johan Lub (Valkenswaard, Netherlands), Torre Michelle Bydlon (Melrose, Mass.) and Molly Lara Flexman (Melrose, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus (200) includes an outer jacket (230), common cladding (220), and multiple single mode fiber cores (210). The common cladding (220)...