ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,023, issued on July 8, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Viscoelasticity characteristics acquisition device, viscoelasticity characteristics acquisition method, viscoelasticity characteristics acquisition program, and recording medium recording said program" was invented by Tomoya Nakazawa (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Rui Sekine (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A viscoelastic characteristics acquisition device is a device that acquires viscoelastic characteristics of a blood vessel of an inspection target, and includes a pulse wave acquisition unit that acquires a time waveform corresponding to a ...