ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,156, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (Saitama, Japan).

"Fibrosis measurement device, fibrosis measurement method and property measurement device" was invented by Kenji Ikushima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fibrosis measurement device that measures fibrosis of a biological tissue non-invasively includes: a sound wave emitter that performs scanning over a surface of a biological tissue as a measurement object to emit sound waves; an electromagnetic wave receiver that receives an electromagnetic wave generated at each location of a biological tissue irradiated with sound waves; a signal ...