ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,606, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ECHOSENS SA (Paris).
"Elastography device and method" was invented by Laurent Sandrin (Bourg-la-Reine, France), Stephane Audiere (Paris) and Veronique Miette (L'Hay-les-Roses, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastography method implemented by an elastography device, the method including obtaining a respiratory signal related to a respiratory activity of a subject; and acquiring a plurality of measurements of a mechanical property of a region of a body of the subject, the region being a part of a liver or a spleen of the subject, wherein each measurement among at least a subset of the p...