US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus to detect lipid contents in tissues using ultrasound" (American, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,566, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Method and apparatus to detect lipid contents in tissues using ultrasound" was invented by Kang Kim (Pittsburgh), Ahmed M. Mahmoud (Giza, Egypt) and Debaditya Dutta (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quantifying an amount of fat contained in a liver or other tissue of a subject in vivo includes varying the temperature of a target area in a subject, imaging thermal strain of the target area using an ultrasound scanner, and quantifying the amount of fat in the targeted area based on the therm...