Patents by Inventor Pierre Marc Aprahamian

Pierre Marc Aprahamian has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Detecting and mapping of inflamed zones in a living tissue
    Patent number: 6393315
    Abstract: A method for detecting and mapping inflamed zones in living tissues and a device for implementing the method. The method includes subjecting the tissues to be analyzed to a luminous excitation with a predetermined spectral domain, acquiring at least the raw fluorescence signal of the porphyrins for a plurality of measurement points, and in determining, for each measurement point, the intensity of the fluorescence for the wavelengths characteristic of endogenous porphyrins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Communaute Europeenne
    Inventors: Pierre Marc Aprahamian, Francine Heisel, Alfredo Lucia, Joseph-Albert Miehe, Malgorzata Sowinska, Maurice Whelan