US Patent Issued to Esaote on July 21 for "Dematerialized, multi-user system for the acquisition, generation and processing of ultrasound images" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,517, issued on July 21, was assigned to Esaote S.p.A. (Genoa, Italy).

"Dematerialized, multi-user system for the acquisition, generation and processing of ultrasound images" was invented by Marco Maccio (Genoa, Italy) and Luca Russano (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a dematerialized ultrasound system, i.e. comprising a probe for transmitting and receiving ultrasound signals and a generic processing hardware made of one or more distributed processing units, the functions relating to the processing steps for the generation and processing of the images are in the form of software programs that encode instructions for the...