US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on June 30 for "Time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOFPET) assembly and related method thereof" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,321, issued on June 30, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOFPET) assembly and related method thereof" was invented by Stanislaw Majewski (Charlottesville, Va.), Bijoy Kundu (Glen Allen, Va.) and Charalampos Tsoumpas (Leeds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOFPET) assembly for detecting lesions of a breast of a subject, wherein the subject may anatomically be defined with a median plane and chest wall-coronal plane. The assembly may comprise: a detector array having at least two or m...