US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on Aug. 25 for "Non-contact ultrasound viscoelastic spectroscopy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,873, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Non-contact ultrasound viscoelastic spectroscopy" was invented by Payam Eliahoo (Los Angeles), Bo Han (Temple City, Calif.), Richard Leahy (Los Angeles) and Kirk Shung (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, method, algorithm and/or device (collectively, "system") for non-contact or contactless ultrasound viscoelastic spectroscopy measures the viscoelastic properties of soft matter through exerting modulated ultrasound pressure waves, so called stress signals and measuring the material deformation, so called strain imagi...