US Patent Issued to Maui Imaging on July 1 for "Determining material stiffness using multiple aperture ultrasound" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,210, issued on July 1, was assigned to Maui Imaging Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Determining material stiffness using multiple aperture ultrasound" was invented by Donald F. Specht (Los Altos, Calif.) and Kenneth D. Brewer (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Changes in tissue stiffness have long been associated with disease. Systems and methods for determining the stiffness of tissues using ultrasonography may include a device for inducing a propagating shear wave in tissue and tracking the speed of propagation, which is directly related to tissue stiffness and density. The speed of a propagating shear wave may be detected b...