US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Jan. 13 for "Methods and systems for assessment of liver fibrosis and steatosis" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,057, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods and systems for assessment of liver fibrosis and steatosis" was invented by Ashvin Bashyam (Austin, Texas), Christopher Frangieh (Cambridge, Mass.) and Michael J. Cima (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for assessing steatosis and fibrosis in a patient's liver include (i) measuring a diffusion-weighted relaxometry signal of the liver, or portion thereof; and determining a fibrosis content of the liver or portion thereof based on the measured diffusion-weighted relaxometry signal, or (ii) measuring a relaxo...