ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,001, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LUXSONIC TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Saskatoon, Canada).

"System and method for medical imaging using virtual reality" was invented by Michal Wesolowski (Saskatoon, Canada), John C. Huffman (Portland, Ore.), Arjun Puri (Saskatoon, Canada) and Avez Rizvi (Brownsville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical imaging system includes a workstation and software configured for accessing medical image data from a database and generating one of more of 1D, 2D, 3D and 4D representations of the medical image data on one or more virtual reality imaging devices, where the virtual display is manipulatable by ...