ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,868, issued on Dec. 2.

"Lung diagnosis using dynamic X-ray imaging" was invented by Thomas Koehler (Hamburg, Germany), Rafael Wiemker (Hamburg, Germany), Cornelis Petrus Hendriks (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Michael Polkey (London), Joerg Sabczynski (Hamburg, Germany), Roberto Buizza (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Jaap Roger Haartsen (Best, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical imaging device includes a display device; and at least one electronic processor programmed to perform an imaging method including controlling an associated medical imaging device to acquire a dynamic lung image including a time sequence of lung images...