US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 24 for "Apparatus, systems and methods for in vivo imaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,302, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Apparatus, systems and methods for in vivo imaging" was invented by Moshiur M. Anwar (San Francisco), Catherine Park (San Francisco) and Bernhard Boser (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to the use of optical nanoparticles in the illumination and imaging of tissues such as cancer tissues. Optical nanoparticles such as upconverting nanoparticles can be introduced into a patient and illuminated at a first time and wavelength and then imaged at a second time and wavel...