US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 7 for "Ultrasound probe with illumination means for locating needle guide hole" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,846, issued on July 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound probe with illumination means for locating needle guide hole" was invented by Nobuyuki Torisawa (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Wataru Inoue (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Satoshi Naito (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Yukio Haga (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan) and Shozo Iyama (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound probe includes: a distal end part that is provided with an ultrasound oscillator; and a light emitting unit that is provided at the distal end part and that emits light toward an opposite side to a side where the ultrasound oscillator is pr...