US Patent Issued to The Penn State Research Foundation on Dec. 2 for "Assessment of skin perfusion using microwave heating and using infrared radiometry" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,798, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).

"Assessment of skin perfusion using microwave heating and using infrared radiometry" was invented by Mohammad-Reza Tofighi (Malvern, Pa.), Anilchandra Attaluri (Middletown, Pa.) and Dino Ravnic (Hershey, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to use of microwave heating and infrared thermography for assessing perfusion. The system includes a microwave source, an antenna, and a radiometer. The microwave source generates microwave radiation at a frequency that is tuned to or near a resonance frequency by the antenna to output...