ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,806, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) and The University of Chicago (Chicago).

"Characterization of lesions via determination of vascular metrics using MRI data" was invented by Thomas Yankeelov (Austin, Texas), Gregory Karczmar (Chicago), Chengyue Wu (Austin, Texas), David Hormuth (Austin, Texas), Todd A. Oliver (Austin, Texas), Robert D. Moser (Austin, Texas), Federico Pineda (Chicago), Ty Easley (Chicago), Rina F. Barber (Chicago), Byol Kim (Chicago), Deepa Sheth (Chicago), Aytekin Oto (Chicago), Hiroyuki Abe (Chicago), Milica Medved (Chicago), Xiaobing Fan (Chicago), Aritrick Chatterjee (Chicago) and Shiyang ...