US Patent Issued to Advanced Tactile Imaging on May 12 for "Tactile ultrasound method and probe for predicting spontaneous preterm birth" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,679, issued on May 12, was assigned to Advanced Tactile Imaging Inc. (Ewing Township, N.J.).

"Tactile ultrasound method and probe for predicting spontaneous preterm birth" was invented by Vladimir Egorov (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cervical probe, equipped with both a tactile sensor array and an ultrasound transducer array, is engineered for the simultaneous acquisition of stress and ultrasound strain data from cervical sectors, as well as for the measurement of cervical length. The collected stress and strain data from various cervical sectors are transmitted to a data processor. This processor calculates cervic...