ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,333, issued on June 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Displaying data based on machine-reading of an ultrasound device" was invented by Christopher Howard (Seattle), Craig Chamberlain (Seattle), Jimin Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Katsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Andrew Lundberg (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for displaying data based on machine-reading of an ultrasound device are described. In some embodiments, an ultrasound system includes an ultrasound device having a machine-readable indicator and a reader device configured to read information from the machine-r...