US Patent Issued to Worcester Polytechnic Institute on July 21 for "Spectroscopic photoacoustic imaging probe" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,510, issued on July 21, was assigned to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Mass.).

"Spectroscopic photoacoustic imaging probe" was invented by Haichong Zhang (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Shang Gao (Worcester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoacoustic (PA) sensor employs a linear deployment of an illumination source and a corresponding ultrasonic receiver for defining an imaging plane for rendering a PA image of a surgical or diagnostic region. A pair of illumination sources emanates from cladding removal of respective optical fibers, and irradiates in alignment with a side firing ultrasonic (US) array for receiving the...