US Patent Issued to Wayne State University on July 29 for "Omnidirectional photoacoustic tomography system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,799, issued on July 29, was assigned to Wayne State University (Detroit).

"Omnidirectional photoacoustic tomography system" was invented by Ivan Avrutsky (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Mohammad Mehrmohammadi (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoacoustic tomography system includes a first ring-shaped mirror having a central axis therethrough and configured to converge light inwardly towards the central axis and a subject, and an adjustment mechanism configured to move the first ring-shaped mirror along the central axis to a plurality of different positions. Each position of the plurality of different positions ...