Biomedical Engineering

RCT Licenses Ultrasound Tissue Harmonic Imaging Technology to Philips

Published in Law and Health Weekly, July 14th, 2007

Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) has granted Royal Philips Electronics and its affiliates, including the ultrasound business of Philips Medical Systems, a nonexclusive license to pioneering patents owned by RCT that broadly cover ultrasound tissue harmonic imaging (THI).

Tucson-based RCT manages the THI technology for its partner, the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. Seminal work in the early 1990s by Ted Christopher, Ph.D., at the university's Center for Biomedical Ultrasound resulted in a new mode of ultrasound imaging that has become an essential part of diagnostic ultrasound today. Christopher's invention showed that the second and higher-order...

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Source: Law and Health Weekly (2007-07-14)

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