US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Sept. 15 for "Method and system using ultrasound reflections of main portal vein to predict liver cancer" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,900, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Method and system using ultrasound reflections of main portal vein to predict liver cancer" was invented by Jose D. Debes (Minneapolis) and Ju Sun (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes sensing sound reflections from a living body and determining frequency intensities in the sound reflections at each of a sequence of time windows. The frequency intensities are then used to predict the presence of liver cancer."

The patent was filed on Oct. 23, 2024, under Application No. 18/924,434.

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