US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 23 for "Systems and methods for illumination and imaging of a target" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,156, issued on June 23, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for illumination and imaging of a target" was invented by Frederick Allen Moore (Vancouver, Canada) and Robert Anthony Stead (North Vancouver, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device for imaging target tissue of a subject is provided. The imaging device includes at least one imaging sensor and a wavelength-dependent aperture upstream of the at least one imaging sensor. The wavelength-dependent aperture includes a first aperture portion configured to permit transmission of visible light and fluorescence light, and a second aper...