US Patent Issued to Ulthera on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for measuring elasticity with imaging of ultrasound multi-focus shearwaves in multiple dimensions" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,293, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ulthera Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for measuring elasticity with imaging of ultrasound multi-focus shearwaves in multiple dimensions" was invented by Charles D. Emery (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Stephen John Hsu (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a dermatological cosmetic treatment and/or imaging system and method adapted to alter placement and position of multiple (e.g., two or more) cosmetic treatment zones in tissue from ultrasound beams from a transducer, simultaneous multi-focus therapy at multiple depths, and/or dithering ultrasound beams from a transducer t...