ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,518, issued on July 21, was assigned to COMPREMIUM AG (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method for the non-invasive capture of the temporal development of a state of a tissue structure" was invented by Vincent Boris Baumann (Gumligen, Switzerland), Peter Nuot Frei (Duliken, Switzerland) and Ulrich Baumann (Munsingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for the non-invasive capture of a temporal development of a state of a tissue structure, first measurement data of the body region (1) are recorded non-invasively and first image data are generated from the recorded measurement data. This first image data is pre-processed locall...