ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,251, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES (Saint Martin d'Heres, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Quantative analysis of fluctuations in biological tissues via multispectral photoacoustic imaging" was invented by Bastien Arnal (Grenoble, France), Emmanuel Bossy (Corenc, France) and Guillaume Godefroy (Brunoy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for processing photoacoustic images, this method including: obtaining a time series of images of a sample, the images being acquired by a photoacoustic imaging system at Mx excitation-pulse wavelengths, with N im...