ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,103, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for providing medical fluorescence imaging using a rolling shutter imager and a liquid crystal light shutter" was invented by Benjamin Hyman Feingold (San Francisco), Chien Mien Pang (San Jose, Calif.), Levey Trac Tran (Denver), Paul Roald Westwick (Vancouver, Canada) and Marc Andre (Spiegel b. Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to techniques for imaging tissue of a subject. An exemplary method comprises transitioning a (liquid crystal) light shutter to an open state to allow reflected light from i...