ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,377, issued on May 5, was assigned to DEEPSIGHT TECHNOLOGY INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Transponder tracking and ultrasound image enhancement" was invented by Jiangang Zhu (St. Louis), Mucong Li (St. Louis), Linhua Xu (University City, Mo.) and Michael Hazarian (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transponder is used for tracking a position of a distal end of a medical device in an ultrasound image and/or enhancing an ultrasound image."
The patent was filed on Oct. 23, 2023, under Application No. 18/382,984.
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