US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SonoSite on April 7 for "Ultrasound microvasculature super-resolution imaging acquisition" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,051, issued on April 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Ultrasound microvasculature super-resolution imaging acquisition" was invented by Christopher White (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for microvasculature imaging acquisition are disclosed. In aspects, a full frame corresponding to a field of view of an ultrasound scanner is divided into small portions, each of which is individually scanned for a desired period of time at a higher frame rate than the ultrasound scanner is capable of using to scan the full frame. These ultrasound data acquisition techniques enabl...