ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,511, issued on June 9, was assigned to Exo Imaging Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Full-array digital 3D ultrasound imaging system integrated with a matrix array transducer" was invented by Kutay Ustuner (Mountainview, Calif.), Chad Steward (Redwood City, Calif.), David Dea (Redwood City, Calif.), Jonathan Strode (Redwood City, Calif.), Yusuf Haque (Woodside, Calif.), Bicheng William Wu (Redwood City, Calif.), Charles Bradley (Redwood City, Calif.) and Anming Cai (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for ultrasound imaging and beamforming with a matrix array of transducer elements are provided. Receive...