ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,635, issued on July 21, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Systems and methods for in body microwave imaging of a subject" was invented by Andrew Gigie (Bengaluru, India), Krishna Kanth Rokkam (Bengaluru, India), Achanna Anil Kumar (Bengaluru, India), Tapas Chakravarty (Kolkata, India), Arpan Pal (Kolkata, India) and Anwesha Khasnobish (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting cancer early can significantly reduce mortality rate, but this still remains a challenge owing to shortcomings in early screening and detection with existing modalities. Cancer detection is done using known screening...