US Patent Issued to Delphinus Medical Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Methods and systems for cancer risk assessment using tissue sound speed and stiffness" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,978, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Delphinus Medical Technologies Inc. (Novi, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for cancer risk assessment using tissue sound speed and stiffness" was invented by Nebojsa Duric (Novi, Mich.), Mark Sak (Novi, Mich.), Peter Littrup (Novi, Mich.), Cuiping Li (Novi, Mich.) and Olivier Roy (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing an image of a volume of tissue to determine a risk of developing breast cancer using a volume averaged sound speed within the volume. A method of determining a response to a treatment plan by determining a volume and a volume averaged sound speed of a regio...