ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,293, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Phototherapy device, phototherapy method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Kazuaki Murayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phototherapy device includes: a treatment light emitter configured to emit treatment light for causing a reaction of a drug; a narrow band light emitter configured to emit narrow band light having part of wavelength band of a visible light range; an excitation light emitter configured to emit excitation light for causing excitation of the drug; a first imager configured to obtain a narrow band light image which is formed...