US Patent Issued to SUPERSONIC IMAGINE on Feb. 18 for "Method and device for measuring a mean value of visco-elasticity of a region of interest" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,260, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SUPERSONIC IMAGINE (Aix en Provence, France).

"Method and device for measuring a mean value of visco-elasticity of a region of interest" was invented by Jeremy Bercoff (Aix en Provence, France), David Savery (Calas-Cabries, France), Mickael Tanter (Bagneux, France), Jean-Luc Gennisson (Cergy, France), Mathias Fink (Meudon, France) and Claude Cohen-Bacrie (Ventabren, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring a mean visco-elasticity value for a soft material using a single probe carrying at least one transducer includes inducing, in a constraint zone, at least one burst of mech...