US Patent Issued to SUPERSONIC IMAGINE on April 1 for "Ultrasonic method for quantifying the nonlinear shear wave elasticity of a medium, and device for implementing this method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,034, issued on April 1, was assigned to SUPERSONIC IMAGINE (Aix-en-Provence, France).

"Ultrasonic method for quantifying the nonlinear shear wave elasticity of a medium, and device for implementing this method" was invented by Bo Zhang (Cabries, France), Ling Tong (Aix-en-Provence, France), Cyril Dolgoff (Ginasservis, France), Helene Sportouche (Marseilles, France) and Jean-Pierre Henry (Marseilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic method for quantifying the nonlinear shear wave elasticity of a medium, the method comprising the following steps: A1.-collecting a temporal succession of shear wave elasticity data from...