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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:
Aug. 30, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Applicants:
Edgar N. Lewis, Brookeville, MD (US);
Jenny E. Freeman, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Inventors:
Edgar N. Lewis, Brookeville, MD (US);
Jenny E. Freeman, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Assignee:
HyperMed, Inc., Weston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B006/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A medical instrument that comprises: a first-stage optic responsive to a tissue surface of a patient; a spectral separator optically responsive to the first stage optic and having a control input; an imaging sensor optically responsive to the spectral separator and having an image data output; and a diagnostic processor having an image acquisition interface with an input responsive to the imaging sensor and a filter control interface having a control output provided to the control input of the spectral separator.