US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Dec. 16 for "Optimized electrical impedance tomography" (Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,985, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Optimized electrical impedance tomography" was invented by Matthew Allen Grayson (Evanston, Ill.), Chulin Wang (Evanston, Ill.), Claire Cecelia Onsager (Stoughton, Wis.), Can Cenap Aygen (Chicago), Charles M. Costakis (Evanston, Ill.), Lauren E. Lang (Boulder, Colo.), Andreas Tzavelis (Demarest, N.J.), John Ashley Rogers (Wilmette, Ill.) and Suzan van der Lee (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed 2-D resistance tomographic imaging method optimizes computation speed for performing electrical impedance tomography using a model-spac...