US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SonoSite on Feb. 3 for "Operation-specific impedance matching for enhancing sensitivity of an ultrasound system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,100, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Operation-specific impedance matching for enhancing sensitivity of an ultrasound system" was invented by Jimin Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Wei Li (Bothell, Wash.) and Andrew Lundberg (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing operation-specific impedance matching for enhancing sensitivity of an ultrasound system are described. To enhance sensitivity while using a transducer element for transmission and reception, a transducer module's architecture provides operation-specific impedance matching. Operation-specific ...