US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research, National University Hospital (Singapore) on Oct. 20 for "System and a method to distinguish between benign and malignant breast tumors" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,778, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore) and National University Hospital (Singapore) Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"System and a method to distinguish between benign and malignant breast tumors" was invented by Malini Olivo (Singapore), Yong Geng Goh (Singapore), Ghayathri Balasundaram (Singapore), Mohesh Moothanchery (Singapore), Renzhe Bi (Singapore) and Ruochong Zhang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ex vivo method and system of identifying a state of a tumor margin in a sample. An ultrasound image and a photoacoustic image are generated, where the system includes a probe ...