ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,265, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to PUKYONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Busan, South Korea).

"High-speed scanning photo-acoustic image input apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Jung Hwan Oh (Busan, South Korea), Jae Yeop Choi (Busan, South Korea), Van Tu Nguyen (Busan, South Korea), Van Hiep Pham (Busan, South Korea), Nguyen Thanh Phong Truong (Busan, South Korea), Cao Duon Ly (Busan, South Korea) and Su Min Park (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus that comprises a photo-acoustic transceiver which outputs, through a laser generator, a ...