US Patent Issued to JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY on March 31 for "Characteristics measurement device for object to be measured and characteristics measurement method for object to be measured" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,931, issued on March 31, was assigned to JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (Saitama, Japan).

"Characteristics measurement device for object to be measured and characteristics measurement method for object to be measured" was invented by Kazuma Ito (Tokyo), Nobuo Niimi (Tokyo) and Kenji Ikushima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A characteristics measurement device for an object according to the invention comprises a sound wave generator that emits a sound wave; a receiver that receives from the object an electromagnetic field generated by the sound wave being irradiated to the object; a sound wave medium between the sound wave...