US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Jan. 27 for "Apparatus and method providing a hand-mounted surgical tool" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,176, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Apparatus and method providing a hand-mounted surgical tool" was invented by Chelsey Savannah Simmons (Gainesville, Fla.), Christiana M. Shaw (Gainesville, Fla.) and Sanda Tan (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for providing hand-mounted surgical tools is provided. The apparatus includes a housing configured to be mounted to a body of a user. The apparatus also includes an optical source to generate a first optical signal in an absorption spectrum of a biocompatible fluorescing dye (BFD). ...