ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,955, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to VOTIS Subdermal Imaging Technologies Ltd. (Israel).

"Methods and apparatus for performing diffuse optical imaging" was invented by Steven M. Ebstein (Newton Centre, Mass.), Jacques Aschkenasy (Jerusalem), Ephraim Siegel (Aspar, Israel), Zeev Bomzon (Kiryat Tivon, Israel) and Ariel Rachminov (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for performing diffuse optical imaging of a patient, said apparatus comprising: a computer; at least one sensor module comprising at least one optical source, at least one photodetector, and calibration data specific to said at least one sensor module; m...