ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,428, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston).
"Optical sensor for monitoring temperature-induced changes in biological tissues" was invented by Anna N. Yaroslavsky (North Andover, Mass.) and Tyler W. Iorizzo (Lithia, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to a system including a light source configured to providing a beam of light to a sample of biological tissue, the light source including wavelengths over a range of at least 50 nm: a spectrometer configured for measuring a spectrum of an amount of light reflected from the biological tissue in response to the beam of ...