ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,254, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Transparent ultrasonic sensor-based ultrasonic optical composite imaging system" was invented by Chulhong Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea), Hyung Ham Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea), Jeongwoo Park (Daegu, South Korea), Byullee Park (Gwangju, South Korea), Moongyu Han (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Joongho Ahn (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a transparent ultrasonic sensor-based ultrasonic optical composite imaging system including at least one light source and a transparent ultrasonic sensor coaxial...