US Patent Issued to Ziteo on June 17 for "Methods and systems for high performance and versatile molecular imaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,551, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ziteo Inc. (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for high performance and versatile molecular imaging" was invented by Michael Quinlan (San Francisco), Lucian Mihailescu (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and Andrei Claudiu Cosma (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved imaging devices and methods. A portable SPECT imaging device may co-register with imaging modalities such as ultrasound. Gamma camera panels including gamma camera sensors may be connected to a mechanical arm. A coded aperture mask may be placed in front of a gamma-ray photon sensor and used to construct a high-r...