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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2023
Applicant:
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Yongyi Zhao, Houston, TX (US);
Ankit Raghuram, Houston, TX (US);
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Houston, TX (US);
Jacob Robinson, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0073 (2013.01); A61B 5/0068 (2013.01); A61B 2560/029 (2013.01); A61B 2562/046 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for imaging a target embedded in a scattering media includes: one or more light sources that are pulsed lights at one or more wavelengths in a range of visible to near-infrared; a detector, including a photodetector array with a time-gating function, configured to collect a scattered light after a gate start time; and a processor configured to determine an image of the target based on the scattered light.