Portefeuille de brevets

Depuis sa création, SuperSonic Imagine, société innovante dans le domaine des ultrasons a pris soin de protéger ses innovations technologiques , en particulier par des dépôts de demandes de brevets. La société se trouve aujourd'hui ainsi à la tête d'un portefeuille d'une 30aine de titres de propriétés intellectuelles, comprenant en particulier:

Brevets délivrés par l'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

Demandes en cours d’examen devant USPTO :

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

Demandes internationales désignant les 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