US 11,696,708 B2
Probe device and spectroscopy system including a structure with a plurality of housings for lighting and detection devices
Vincenzo Vinciguerra, Biancavilla (IT); Piero Fallica, Catania (IT); and Mario Francesco Romeo, Fiumefreddo di Sicilia (IT)
Assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza (IT)
Filed by STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza (IT)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/824,374.
Claims priority of application No. 102019000004311 (IT), filed on Mar. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0305778 A1, Oct. 1, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 5/1455 (2006.01); A61B 5/25 (2021.01); A61B 5/0245 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/291 (2021.01); A61B 5/026 (2006.01); A61B 5/268 (2021.01)
CPC A61B 5/14552 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0245 (2013.01); A61B 5/0261 (2013.01); A61B 5/268 (2021.01); A61B 5/291 (2021.01); A61B 5/6803 (2013.01); A61B 5/6848 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device, comprising:
an optical device including:
a housing including an external surface and an external sidewall transverse to the external surface; and
at least one of a photodetector or a first light source;
a cap on the external surface of the housing of the optical device;
an electrode on the cap, the electrode being configured to contact, in use, a body tissue; and
a conductive wire coupled to the electrode, the conductive wire extends along the external sidewall of the housing.