ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,562, issued on April 21, was assigned to Digital Harmonic LLC (Columbia, Md.).

"System and method for measuring, storing, collating, and displaying vibrational spectra of living cells and tissue using digital comparative precision noise reduction" was invented by Paul Reed Smith (Annapolis, Md.), Mason Baron (Laurel, Md.), William G. Nelson (Cockeysville, Md.), Shane G.W. Morris (Baltimore), Sandor Szalay (Baltimore), Jonathan B. Coulter (Baltimore), Frederick M. Slay (Okatie, S.C.) and Scott Haiges (Lancaster, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for measuring vibrational spectra of living cells and ...