ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,829, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ECHOSENS (Paris).
"Elastography device and method" was invented by Laurent Sandrin (Bourg-la-Reine, France) and Stephane Audiere (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastography device includes a probe, to be held against the body of a subject, the probe including a single ultrasound transducer; or a plurality of ultrasound transducers, all ultrasound transducers of the being motionless with respect to each other, and a low frequency vibrator, arranged to induce a displacement of said single ultrasound transducer or plurality of ultrasound transducers towards a tissue to be characterized, an...