US Patent Issued to ECHOSENS on Dec. 2 for "Device and method for measuring the viscoelastic properties of a viscoelastic medium" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,881, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ECHOSENS SA (Paris).

"Device and method for measuring the viscoelastic properties of a viscoelastic medium" 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: "A method for measuring viscoelastic properties of a viscoelastic medium, the method including positioning a probe in contact with the viscoelastic medium, the probe extending along a longitudinal axis and being adapted to carry out transient elastography measurements and including a casing, at least one ultrasound a transducer arranged at a tip of the probe and adapted to gene...