US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 17 for "Photoacoustic devices and systems including one or more light guide components" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,864, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Photoacoustic devices and systems including one or more light guide components" was invented by Sumit Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ali Lopez (Dublin, Calif.), Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh (Cupertino, Calif.), Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev (Los Gatos, Calif.), Camilo Perez Saaibi (Dublin, Calif.), Legardo Reyes (Fremont, Calif.), Nicholas Buchan (San Jose, Calif.), Ila Badge (San Jose, Calif.) and Chin-Jen Tseng (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a platen, a light source system and a receiver system. The light source system may a...