US Patent Issued to ECHOSENS on Nov. 25 for "System including a vibrator and an ultrasound emitter for characterizing tissue" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,350, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ECHOSENS SA (Paris).

"System including a vibrator and an ultrasound emitter for characterizing tissue" was invented by Laurent Sandrin (Bourg-la-Reine, France) and Hugo Loree (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for characterizing tissue includes a probe that delivers a continuous and periodic mechanical vibration to a tissue of a subject; an ultrasound emitter that emits a sequence of ultrasound shots and an ultrasound receiver that receives corresponding echo signals to track how the tissue is moved by the periodic mechanical vibration delivered to the tissue; and a control module p...