US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL on Jan. 20 for "Quantitative viscoelastic response (QVISR) ultrasound" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,633, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Quantitative viscoelastic response (QVISR) ultrasound" was invented by Caterina M Gallippi (Cary, N.C.), Christopher Joseph Moore (Durham, N.C.) and Joseph Brickey Richardson (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quantitatively measuring a physical characteristic of a material includes applying a force to a material sample according to an interrogation profile comprising a set of one or more interrogation parameters. The method further includes measuring a displacement over time of the material sample...