ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,766, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Processing and analyzing ultrasound shear wave elastography images" was invented by Brett S. Kirby (Portland, Ore.), Shannon Pomeroy (Portland, Ore.) and Brad Winn (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein include receiving, by a processor, one or more data files from an ultrasound shear wave elastography apparatus configured to capture viscoelastic tissue properties in an area of a subject using ultrasound shear wave electrography, processing the one or more data files to compute viscoelastic tissue parameters related to...