US Patent Issued to Echopen Factory on Oct. 27 for "Ultrasound probe and method for implementing same" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,185, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Echopen Factory (Paris).

"Ultrasound probe and method for implementing same" was invented by Benoit Vincent (Paris), Clement Le Couedic (Puteaux, France) and Jerome Dubois (Orleans, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This implementation method is used for an ultrasound scanner including an ultrasound scanner probe used to explore an area of interest on the human body, in which a drive system including a stepper motor and a carrier supporting a transducer element is controlled in order to pick up echo lines via the transducer element. An imaging algorithm is applied and image points are analy...