US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on July 28 for "Generating ultrasound protocols" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,847, issued on July 28, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Generating ultrasound protocols" was invented by Anthony Sottile (Bothell, Wash.) and David Knapp (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and ultrasound systems for generating ultrasound protocols are disclosed. In some embodiments, the ultrasound system includes an ultrasound scanner configured to transmit ultrasound at a patient anatomy and receive reflections of the ultrasound from the patient anatomy as part of a current ultrasound examination that includes workflow steps; an ultrasound machine configured to generate image data based...