ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,829, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for tissue analysis using remote PPG" was invented by Marco ' Lai (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Gerhardus Wilhelmus Lucassen (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue analysis system and method process hyperspectral images to classify tissue types within the images. A presence or level of tissue oxygenation is estimated for each tissue type as well as a PPG perfusion. The estimated tissue oxygenation and PPG perfusion information are combi...