US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Oct. 28 for "Method for characterizing a tubular object such as a blood vessel by ultrasonic imaging" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,530, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for characterizing a tubular object such as a blood vessel by ultrasonic imaging" was invented by Sylvain Chatillon (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) and Djallel Belhadj (Gif-sur-Yvette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for characterizing a tubular object by ultrasonic imaging includes: acquiring a plurality of ultrasonic signals originating from the reflection of an ultrasonic field transmitted by the transducer in a region of interest in a transverse cross-sectional plane of the object, for different position...