US Patent Issued to LUNIT INTERNATIONAL on April 21 for "System and method for the quantification of contrast agent" (New Zealander, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,131, issued on April 21, was assigned to LUNIT INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Wellington, New Zealand).

"System and method for the quantification of contrast agent" was invented by Ralph Highnam (Wellington, New Zealand) and Melissa Hill (Issey les Moulineaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to contrast-enhanced radiographic imaging, the quantification of contrast agent in tissue and the assessment of the radiographic image quality. The invention provides a radiographic system-agnostic method to assess tissue administered with a radio-opaque contrast agent. The method is a system-agnostic means to accurately...