US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK on March 24 for "Systems, devices, and methods for visualization of tissue and collection and analysis of data regarding same" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,197, issued on March 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK (Toronto).

"Systems, devices, and methods for visualization of tissue and collection and analysis of data regarding same" was invented by Ralph Dacosta (Etobicoke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of guiding debridement of a wound with an imaging system comprises positioning an excitation light source of an imaging system relative to a wound and illuminating the wound with excitation light to cause the wound to emit fluorescence. The method also comprises positioning an emissions filter over a portion of a mobile communication device and aligning the em...