ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,613, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Exo Imaging Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processing circuitry, system and method to test pixels in an ultrasonic imaging device based on comparing a baseline pixel performance dataset with a current pixel performance dataset" was invented by Anthony E. Brock (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Brian Bircumshaw (Orinda, Calif.) and Jonathan R. Strode (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, a method, and computer-implemented media. The apparatus is to determine a current pixel performance dataset for one or more pixels within a transducer array of pixels located adjoining a first med...