ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,450, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Methods and system for low dose x ray computed tomography perfusion imaging" was invented by Jayavardhana Rama Gubbi Lakshminarasimha (Bangalore, India), Viswanath Pamulakanty Sudarshan (Bangalore, India), Vartika Sengar (Bangalore, India), Arpan Pal (Kolkata, India) and Pavan Kumar Reddy Kancham (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State of the art mechanisms being used for achieving diagnostic-quality images under low-dose settings for general CT imaging have the disadvantages that CT images are fixed during the optimization process t...