ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,571, issued on June 30, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for tomographic imaging" was invented by Yanting Ma (Cambridge, Mass.), Qingqing Zhao (Cambridge, Mass.), Hassan Mansour (Cambridge, Mass.), Petros Boufounos (Cambridge, Mass.) and Saleh Nabi (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tomographic imaging system is provided. The system receives measurements at frequencies of a wave-field scattered by an internal structure of an object, recursively reconstructs an image of the internal structure of the object until a termination condition is met, and ren...