ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,081, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to EDDA TECHNOLOGY INC (Princeton, N.J.).

"Spectro-mechanical imaging for characterizing embedded lesions" was invented by Firdous Saleheen (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Guo-Qing Wei (Plainsboro, N.J.), Li Fan (Belle Mead, N.J.), Xiaolan Zeng (Princeton, N.J.) and Jianzhong Qian (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, implemented on a machine having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform capable of connecting to a network for characterizing a tumor embedded inside a medium, comprising: measuring at least one of a mechanical property and a spectral propert...