US Patent Issued to PUKYONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION on May 5 for "Apparatus for inputting combined image of photoacoustic image and ultrasonic image and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,376, issued on May 5, was assigned to PUKYONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Busan, South Korea).

"Apparatus for inputting combined image of photoacoustic image and ultrasonic image and method thereof" was invented by Jung Hwan Oh (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus for inputting a combined photoacoustic/ultrasonic image, which generates 3D image information for a object by performing 2D scanning on the object by a first linear motion of a photoacoustic probe and an ultrasonic probe, and a second linear motion perpendicular to the first linear motion, the apparat...