US Patent Issued to Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) on March 25 for "Walk-in lab test for lung morphometry characterization" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,093, issued on March 25, was assigned to Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Chennai, India) and Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) (Tirupati, India).

"Walk-in lab test for lung morphometry characterization" was invented by Mahesh V Panchagnula (Chennai, India), Karthiga Devi S G (Chennai, India) and Mohan Alladi (Tirupati, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for estimating lung morphometry based on aerosol deposition characteristics using an imaging means such as a gamma camera to scan the lungs. An adaptive image threshold technique is used to determine the ratio of...