US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SonoSite on April 14 for "Ultrasound methods and systems for measuring physiological properties" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,369, issued on April 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Ultrasound methods and systems for measuring physiological properties" was invented by Yong Zhou (Woodinville, Wash.) and Jean Tsou (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultrasound methods and systems for measuring physiological properties are disclosed. The ultrasound methods and systems measure one or more characteristics of a vessel, such as vessel-wall displacement over time or blood-flow velocity over time, based on a pulse wave propagating through the vessel. In aspects, the characteristics are measured at two locations of the same vessel with...