ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,900, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BIOMECA (Lyons, France).

"Measuring device intended to be placed in contact with a tissue and method for analyzing the measured tissue data" was invented by Julien Chlasta (Sainte Foy les Lyon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring device intended for being placed in contact with a tissue and a method for analysing the measured tissue data. A measuring device intended for being placed in contact with a tissue, and including an indenter configured to cause a deformation of the tissue, a strain gauge configured to measure a force of resistance of the tissue to the deformation caused by ...