US Patent Issued to OtoNexus Medical Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Infrared otoscope for characterization of effusion" (California, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,814, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to OtoNexus Medical Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Infrared otoscope for characterization of effusion" was invented by Mark A. Moehring (Seattle), George A. Gates (Boerne, Texas), Daniel Kreindler (Foster City, Calif.) and Jay A. Chesavage (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An otoscope uses differential reflected response of optical energy at an absorption range and an adjacent wavelength range to determine the presence of water (where the wavelengths are water absorption wavelength and adjacent non-absorption excitation wavelengths). In another example of the invention, the otosco...