US Patent Issued to Bired Imaging on May 20 for "Detection and characterization of cancerous tumors" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,669, issued on May 20, was assigned to Bired Imaging Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Detection and characterization of cancerous tumors" was invented by Satish G. Kandlikar (Rochester, N.Y.), Donnette Dabydeen (Pittsford, N.Y.), Lori Medeiros (Pittsford, N.Y.), Pradyumna Phatak (Pittsford, N.Y.), Jose Luis Gonzalez Hernandez (Rochester, N.Y.) and Alyssa Owens (East Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and techniques are disclosed to identify regions of suspected malignancy and their localization within a body part or organ. These methods rely on the analysis of infrared images to identify thermal abnormalities using imag...