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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 02, 2014
Applicant:

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin A. Flusberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Eric David Cocker, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Juergen Claus Jung, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Mark Jacob Schnitzer, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); G01J 3/44 (2006.01); G01N 21/65 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0068 (2013.01); A61B 5/0013 (2013.01); A61B 5/0059 (2013.01); A61B 5/0062 (2013.01); A61B 5/0064 (2013.01); A61B 5/0071 (2013.01); A61B 5/0079 (2013.01); A61B 5/4064 (2013.01); A61B 5/6814 (2013.01); G01N 21/6408 (2013.01); G01N 21/6428 (2013.01); G01N 21/6456 (2013.01); G01N 21/6486 (2013.01); A61B 5/0075 (2013.01); A61B 2503/40 (2013.01); A61B 2576/026 (2013.01); G01J 3/44 (2013.01); G01J 3/4406 (2013.01); G01N 21/6458 (2013.01); G01N 21/65 (2013.01);
Abstract

Analysis of live beings is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a light-directing arrangement such as an endoscope is mounted to a live being. Optics in the light-directing arrangement are implemented to pass source light (e.g., laser excitation light) into the live being, and to pass light from the live being for detection thereof. The light from the live being may include, for example, photons emitted in response to the laser excitation light (i.e., fluoresced). The detected light is then used to detect a characteristic of the live being.


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