US Patent Issued to RHEAWAVE on April 8 for "Tubular sleeve for measuring the viscoelasticity of a product to be analysed" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,789, issued on April 8, was assigned to RHEAWAVE (Tours, France).

"Tubular sleeve for measuring the viscoelasticity of a product to be analysed" was invented by Marielle Defontaine (Tours, France) and Helene Lebertre (Tours, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic device for localized and contactless measurement of viscoelasticity of a product to be analyzed. The device includes a generator of high-frequency ultrasonic pulses; an ultrasonic receiver for receiving the high-frequency ultrasonic pulses; the generator and the receiver being disposed relative to each other such that the high-frequency ultrasonic pulses propagate...