ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,636, issued on April 8, was assigned to Guangdong University of Technology (Guangzhou, China).

"Strain calculation method and system for phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography" was invented by Shengli Xie (Guangdong, China), Bo Dong (Guangdong, China), Rui Wu (Guangdong, China), Zihao Ni (Guangdong, China), Yulei Bai (Guangdong, China) and Victor Fedorovich Kuzin (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a strain calculation method and system for phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography (PhS-OCE), including the following steps: obtaining interference spectra for various states during sample deformati...