ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,054, issued on April 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.) and FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound scanner that supports handset wireless network connectivity" was invented by Craig Chamberlain (Seattle), Christopher Howard (Seattle), Harald Fiedler (Mukilteo, Wash.), Derek Jensen (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.), Katsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan) and David Hoglund (Harleysville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to provide an ultrasound scanner that supports handset wireless network connectivity are described. An ultrasound scanner includes a transducer system ...