ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,033, issued on June 23, was assigned to TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).
"System for in vivo measurements of tympanic membrane vibration" was invented by Dvir Yelin (Haifa, Israel) and Matan Hamra (Kfar Yona, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for noninvasive in vivo functional imaging of the human ear and measurement of nanometer scale motion of the tympanic membrane under various acoustic excitations, and identification of vibration patterns that vary between human subjects in response to sound. By combining spectrally encoded imaging with phase-sensitive spectral-domain interferometry, h...