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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2009
William Robert Bandy, Gambrills, MD (US);
Brian Glenn Jamieson, Severna Park, MD (US);
Kevin James Powell, Annapolis, MD (US);
Kenneth Edward Salsman, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Robert Charles Schober, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
John Weitzner, Coto de Caza, CA (US);
Michael R. Arneson, Finksburg, MD (US);
William Robert Bandy, Gambrills, MD (US);
Brian Glenn Jamieson, Severna Park, MD (US);
Kevin James Powell, Annapolis, MD (US);
Kenneth Edward Salsman, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Robert Charles Schober, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
John Weitzner, Coto de Caza, CA (US);
Michael R. Arneson, Finksburg, MD (US);
Innurvation, Inc., Columbia, MD (US);
Abstract
An ingestible scanning device includes, in an embodiment, a capsule housing having a transparent window and sized so as to be ingestible, a photo-sensing array located within the capsule housing, a mirror located within the housing and oriented to direct an image from a surface outside the transparent window to the photo-sensing array, and a light source for illuminating the surface outside the transparent window.