US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK on May 5 for "Devices, methods, and systems for fluorescence-based imaging and detection of location(s) and/or source(s) of potential contamination and/or pollution" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,372, issued on May 5, was assigned to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK (Toronto).

"Devices, methods, and systems for fluorescence-based imaging and detection of location(s) and/or source(s) of potential contamination and/or pollution" was invented by Ralph S. Dacosta (Toronto), Brian C. Wilson (Toronto) and Kai Zhang (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fluorescence-based imaging of a target to detect contamination and/or pollutants is disclosed. The method includes labelling a pre-selected biomarker at the target, illuminating the target with excitation light emitted by an excitation light source and having at lea...