ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,809, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) and Shenzhen Mindray Scientific Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Imaging method and imaging system" was invented by Fang Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Lei Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging method may include: emitting a first laser to a target body and receiving a first photoacoustic signal returned from the target body; determining a first photoacoustic image of the target body according to the first photoacoustic signal; emitting a second laser to the target body and receiving a second photoacoustic sign...