US Patent Issued to ECHOSENS on June 23 for "Elastography device and method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,089, issued on June 23, was assigned to ECHOSENS SA (Paris).

"Elastography device and method" was invented by Laurent Sandrin (Bourg-la-Reine, France), Hugo Loree (Nogent-sur-Marne, France) and Veronique Miette (L'Hay-les-Roses, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for measuring the stiffness of an organ of a subject, the measuring device including a measurement casing which includes a) a shear wave emitter adapted to generate a low-frequency elastic wave, and b) an ultrasound transducer adapted to acquire ultrasound signals to determine the stiffness of the organ based on the propagation of the generated low-frequency elas...