ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,990, issued on June 17, was assigned to Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen (Neubiberg, Germany), Technische Universitat Munchen (Munich) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen (Munich).
"Matched filter in ionoacoustic signal processing for ion beam range determination and dosimetry" was invented by Jannis Schauer (Munich), Gunther Dollinger (Garching, Germany), Heinrich Ruser (Munich), Yuanhui Huang (Eching, Germany), Vasilis Ntziachristos (Munich), Hans Peter Wieser (Munich) and Katia Parodi (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for determining information regarding the location of energy deposition of...