US Patent Issued to CHARITE-UNIVERSITATSMEDIZIN BERLIN on Jan. 20 for "System, method, and computer program product for determining cortical bone characteristics" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,543, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CHARITE-UNIVERSITATSMEDIZIN BERLIN (Berlin).

"System, method, and computer program product for determining cortical bone characteristics" was invented by Kay Raum (Kleinmachnow, Germany), Juan Du (Berlin) and Gianluca Iori (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure refers to a system for determining a cortical bone, comprising: an ultrasound transducer which is configured to transmit an ultrasound wave to a region of interest, and to receive a backscattered ultrasound wave which is backscattered from the region of interest, wherein the region of interest comprises a cortical ...