ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,444, issued on June 17, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Tissue imaging method" was invented by Wan-Hsin Hsieh (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yu-Yao Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Zong-Yi Hsiao (Nantou County, Taiwan) and Hui-Hsin Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a tissue imaging method, including: inserting an electronic probe into a lesion area of a patient and ablating tissue of the lesion area; capturing a first image including the lesion area by using an imaging apparatus; vibrating the electronic probe to generate displacement of at least a portion of...