US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Brigham and Women's Hospital on June 30 for "Methods and systems for quantitative monitoring of in vivo tumor oxygenation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,282, issued on June 30, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Methods and systems for quantitative monitoring of in vivo tumor oxygenation" was invented by Gregory James Ekchian (Belmont, Mass.), Michael J. Cima (Winchester, Mass.), Robert Cormack (Milton, Mass.), Larissa Lee (Newton, Mass.) and Ehud Jeruham Schmidt (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oxygen sensor is provided for measuring a dissolved oxygen concentration when deployed or implanted at a tissue site. The oxygen sensor includes a solid-state contrast agent for oxygen. ...