ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,419, issued on June 30, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for concentrating radio wave energy considering breathing and location of subject" was invented by Won Young Song (Sejong-si, South Korea), Kwang Jae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Soon Ik Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for focusing radio wave energy are disclosed. According to an embodiment of a present disclosure, a method for focusing radio wave energy includes obtaining one or more internal tomographic images of a subject. The method also i...