ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,076, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hepatiq Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Determining pancreas disease using functional imaging" was invented by Dipankar Ghosh (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic system for determining a health condition of an organ of a patient that has been administered a radioisotope dose uptaken by the organ, comprises at least one processor configured for receiving image data acquired from the patient when the radioisotope dose is active in the patient, analyzing the received image data to determine a functional organ volume index and an individual organ function index, staging a health of ...