US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on May 27 for "System and method for photoacoustic imaging and ultrasound imaging" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,793, issued on May 27, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"System and method for photoacoustic imaging and ultrasound imaging" was invented by Lidai Wang (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Yachao Zhang (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging data includes processor(s) and memory storing program(s) configured to be executed by the processor(s). The program(s) include instructions for: obtaining ultrasound imaging data representative of an ultrasound image of the object, performing a speed of sound value optimization operation based on the ult...