ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,110, issued on Jan. 27, 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 to obtain a signal representative of variations of a mechanical property of a region of a body of a subject with time, includes an electronic unit adapted to determine, at a repetition rate of at least 4 measurements per second and for a duration of at least 1 second, measurements of the mechanical property, each measurement being associated with a respective time, wherein the signal representative of the va...