ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,405, issued on May 6, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).
"Analyzing apparatus" was invented by Yasunori Honjo (Kawasaki, Japan), Masaki Watanabe (Kawasaki, Japan) and Tetsuya Kawagishi (Otawara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analyzing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a shear wave propagating in an object. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate an index value that indicates viscosity within the object and that is not dependent on any physical model related to viscoelasticity, by analyzing the detected s...