US Patent Issued to EPIX THERAPEUTICS on Sept. 16 for "Radiometric tissue contact and tissue type detection" (California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,815, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to EPIX THERAPEUTICS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Radiometric tissue contact and tissue type detection" was invented by Dorin Panescu (San Jose, Calif.), Jessi E. Johnson (Santa Clara, Calif.), Josef Vincent Koblish (Santa Clara, Calif.) and John F. McCarthy (Newbury, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Radiometric systems may comprise a radiometer, an antenna and a processor communicatively coupled together. The processor may provide a contact-focused output based on filtering or other processing of a raw radiometric output signal. The contact-focused output may facilitate determination of whet...