US Patent Issued to SMART BREAST on July 15 for "Computer assisted molecular imaging methods and systems" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,256, issued on July 15, was assigned to SMART BREAST Corp. (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

"Computer assisted molecular imaging methods and systems" was invented by James W. Hugg (Tyler, Texas) and Bradley E. Patt (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for molecular image acquisition includes beginning acquisition of a molecular image via a molecular imaging system, performing one or more analyses of the molecular image during acquisition of the molecular image to determine whether at least one hot spot is present in the image, and if it is determined that it is statistically significant that there is either at least o...