US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 15 for "Multispectral photoacoustic devices" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,817, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multispectral photoacoustic devices" was invented by Sumit Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ye Zhan (Buffalo, N.Y.), Emily Kathryn Brooks (Amherst, N.Y.), Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh (Cupertino, Calif.), Ali Lopez (Dublin, Calif.), Nicholas Buchan (San Jose, Calif.), Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev (Los Gatos, Calif.) and John Keith Schneider (Williamsville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a platen, a light source system, an ultrasonic receiver system and a control system, the light source system configured for providing first light of a fi...