ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,510, issued on July 28, was assigned to The University of Chicago (Chicago).

"Cancer detection based on four quadrant mapping and matrix analysis of image data" was invented by Aritrick Chatterjee (Chicago), Gregory S. Karczmar (Crete, Ill.), Aytekin Oto (Chicago) and Xiaobing Fan (Darien, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic system to analyze imaging data includes a memory configured to store hybrid imaging data of a tissue sample. The system also includes a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to generate a four quadrant plot based on the hybrid imaging data. Each point in the four quadrant plot co...