US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on June 30 for "Suppressing interference artifacts in ultrasound" (Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,343, issued on June 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Suppressing interference artifacts in ultrasound" was invented by Yong Zhou (Woodinville, Wash.), Jean Tsou (Seattle), Andrew Lundberg (Woodinville, Wash.) and Thomas Endres (Sagle, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound scanner configured to transmit ultrasound at a patient anatomy and receive reflections of the ultrasound from the patient anatomy. The ultrasound system includes an ultrasound machine configured to generate received data including ultrasound data based on the reflections of the ultrasound and ar...