ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,233, issued on April 29, was assigned to XIDIAN UNIVERSITY (Xi'an, China).

"Non-fiber flat-panel breast diffusion optical tomography system" was invented by Shouping Zhu (Xi'an, China), Xu Cao (Xi'an, China), Yihan Wang (Xi'an, China), Xueli Chen (Xi'an, China), Fanzhen Meng (Xi'an, China), Duofang Chen (Xi'an, China) and Jing Zhao (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A breast diffusion optical tomography (DOT) device includes a light source, a detector, a mechanical driver and a contour acquisitor without using optical fiber and reduce the system complexity. The light source includes M1 number of multi-wavelength near-infrare...