US Patent Issued to Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics on March 31 for "Viscoelasticity measurement method and ultrasonic imaging system" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,897, issued on March 31, was assigned to Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Viscoelasticity measurement method and ultrasonic imaging system" was invented by Shuangshuang Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A viscoelasticity measurement method and an ultrasonic imaging system. The method includes: generating a shear wave that propagates in a target area of a measured object (S210); emitting, to the target area, an ultrasonic wave that tracks the shear wave, and receiving an ultrasonic echo returned from the target area, so as to obtain ultrasonic echo data (S220); obtaining tissue mo...