PATENT PORTFOLIO

Since its creation, SuperSonic Imagine, innovative company in the field of medical imaging ultrasound, has taken care to protect its technological innovations by filing patent applications. Today, the company is at the head of a portfolio of some 30 intellectual property titles, including:

Patents granted by USPTO (United State Patent and Trademark Office):

US8037766 : Method for Generation Mechanical Waves by Generation of Interfacial Acoustic Radiation Force
US8155725 : Method of optimising the focussing of waves through an aberration-inducing element
US8545407 : Method and device for measuring a mean value of visco-elasticity of a region of interest
US8649242 : Insonification device that includes a three-dimensional network of emitter arranged in at least two concentric spirals, which are designed to generate a beam of high-intensity focused waves
US8659507 : Twin-monitor electronic display system
US8310132 : Insonification device having an internal cooling chamber
US9504449 : Ultrasonic imaging device with image acquisition rate optimization
US9482748 : Ultrasound imaging system, and a processing device used inside said ultrasound imaging system
US9140781 : IMAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING SHEAR WAVES
US9168021 : Method and apparatus for measuring heart contractility
US9117439 : Method and apparatus for ultrasound synthetic imagining
US8347692 : Method for Rheological Characterization of a Viscoelastic Medium
US9952321 : Imaging method and device using shear waves
US7679988 : Sound-Wave Imaging Method And Apparatus
US7252004 : Imaging method and device employing shear waves
US7837623 : Non-invasive method of obtaining a pre-determined acoustic wave field in an essentially uniform medium which is concealed by a bone barrier, imaging method and device for carrying out said methods
US7857762 : Method of generating a predetermined wave field
US7101337 : Method and non-invasive device for focusing acoustic waves

USPTO pending patent applications :

US2010168566 : METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR IMAGING A VISCO-ELASTIC MEDIUM
US2009149760 : ULTRASOUND IMAGING PROBE FOR IMAGING A TEMPORARY CHANGE IN AN ENVIRONMENT
US20160331346 : Method for Determining a Physical Characteristic on a Punctual Location Inside a Medium, a Method for Determining an Image of a Medium, and an Apparatus Implementing Said Methods
US20160007958 : CONNECTION SYSTEM AND AN ULTRASOUND SYSTEM COMPRISING SAID CONNECTION SYSTEM
US20110028838 : Method and Apparatus for Measuring a Physical Parameter in Mammal Soft Tissues by Propagating Shear Waves
US2017322308 : IMAGING METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PERFORMING SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY IMAGING
US2017315219 : METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING IMAGE GAIN
US20180000455 : SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGING AN ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM

International PCT applications designating the USA:

WO2010004372 : METHOD FOR FOCUSING AN ULTRASONIC WAVE FIELD
WO2014013285 : APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL POSITIONS OF A HIFU PROBE
WO2018046740 : ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD AND AN APPARATUS IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD
WO2017098298 : AN IMAGING METHOD AND DEVICE USING SHEAR WAVES