ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,187, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ECHOSENS SA (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 an electronic unit adapted to determine a plurality of measurements of a mechanical property of a region of a body of a subject, the electronic unit being further adapted to receive a cardiac signal relative to a cardiac activity of the subject, wherein at least one measurement of the mechanical property among the plurality of measurements of the mechanical property is determined upon detection o...