US Patent Issued to ViOptix on June 30 for "Robust calibration and self-correction for tissue oximetry probe" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,284, issued on June 30, was assigned to ViOptix Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Robust calibration and self-correction for tissue oximetry probe" was invented by Kate LeeAnn Bechtel (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and Brian Wilfley (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating detectors of a self-contained, tissue oximetry device includes emitting light from a light source into a tissue phantom, detecting in a plurality of detectors the light emitted from the light source, subsequent to reflection from the tissue phantom, and generating a set of detector responses by the plurality of detectors based on detecting the ligh...