ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,957, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Laminar Digital Health Inc (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Encoded photoacoustic tomography" was invented by Samuel W. Sheng (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing photoacoustic tomography is provided. Encoded light modulated using one or more digital encoding sequences is emitted using a plurality of light sources. Ultrasonic signals emitted by target biological tissues that absorbed at least a portion of the emitted encoded light are received using a plurality of receivers. The received ultrasonic signals are correlated using one or more reference signals en...