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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,841, issued on July 28, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Ultraportable ultrasound" was invented by Christopher Howard (Seattle), Derek Jensen (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.), Sebastian Tomaszewski (Kenmore, Wash.), Marnie Hamp (Kirkland, Wash.) and Craig Chamberlain (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of ultrasound systems and methods for using the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, an ultrasound system includes a mobile computing device configured to be wirelessly coupled to the ultrasound scanner and display an ultrasound image based on reflections of ultrasound, and a docking station to su...