ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,364, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to OPTICS11 B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Optical measurement of biological tissue" was invented by Kevin Bielawski (Amsterdam), Niek Rijnveld (Amsterdam), Grzegorz Gruca (Amsterdam), Ramkumar Raghuraman (Amsterdam), Jakob Pyszkowski (Amsterdam), Matthias Haalstra (Amsterdam) and Kyle Juedes (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical measurement assembly includes a tissue suspension device having two cantilevers between which a biological tissue can be suspended. This assembly further an optical waveguide having an end that faces a surface part of one of the two cantilevers. The surface part is opt...