US Patent Issued to Southern Methodist University on Feb. 10 for "Tuned microwave resonant system for subcutaneous imaging" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,966, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Southern Methodist University (Dallas).

"Tuned microwave resonant system for subcutaneous imaging" was invented by Jungchih Chiao (Grand Prairie, Texas) and Sen Bing (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for non-invasively identifying a location of a subcutaneous tumor comprising: providing a patient with a possible subcutaneous tumor; providing a detector comprising one or more radio-frequency (RF) planar resonant loop sensors, each sensor comprising a planar resonant loop and an element disposed within and co-planar with a loop formed by the planar resonant loop; creating a first lo...