ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,040, issued on April 1, was assigned to SENO MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS INC. (San Antonio).
"System and method for acquiring optoacoustic data and producing parametric maps thereof" was invented by Bryan Clingman (San Antonio) and Jason Zalev (Thornhill, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for generating sinograms by sampling a plurality of transducers acoustically coupled with the surface of a volume of tissue over a period of time after a light pulse at one wavelength, and after another light pulse at a different wavelength, and for processing those sinograms, reconstructing at least two optoacoustic images from th...