ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VirtualScopics, Inc. (Nasdaq: VSCP - News), a leading developer of image-based biomarker solutions, announced today that it has been issued U.S. Patent No. 7,103,224, "System and Method for Identifying Optimized Blood Signal in Medical Images to Eliminate Flow Artifacts" by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.