US Patent Issued to Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instruments on Jan. 20 for "Compound method of shear-wave elastography and quasi-static elastography" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,549, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instruments Co. Ltd. (Shantou, China).

"Compound method of shear-wave elastography and quasi-static elastography" was invented by Delai Li (Shantou, China), Liexiang Fan (Shantou, China), Yu Wang (Shantou, China), Bin Li (Shantou, China), Zhonghong Wu (Shantou, China), Haomiao Qiu (Shantou, China), Zhongyun Wei (Shantou, China), Zehang Cai (Shantou, China), Yuqiang Kang (Shantou, China) and Peifeng Chen (Shantou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a compound method of shear-wave elastography (SWE) and quasi-static elastography (QSE). The method inc...