US Patent Issued to BFLY Operations on July 14 for "Ultrasonic imaging devices, systems and methods" (Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,137, issued on July 14, was assigned to BFLY Operations Inc.

"Ultrasonic imaging devices, systems and methods" was invented by Jonathan M. Rothberg (Guilford, Conn.), Keith G. Fife (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tyler S. Ralston (Clinton, Conn.), Gregory L. Charvat (Guilford, Conn.) and Nevada J. Sanchez (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To implement a single-chip ultrasonic imaging solution, on-chip signal processing may be employed in the receive signal path to reduce data bandwidth and a high-speed serial data module may be used to move data for all received channels off-chip as digital data stream. The digitization of receive...