ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,383, issued on March 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Enhanced ultrasound imaging apparatus and associated methods of work flow" was invented by Qinglin Ma (Woodinville, Wash.), Nikolaos Pagoulatos (Bothell, Wash.) and Dave Glenn Willis (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhanced ultrasound imaging apparatus and associated methods of work flow are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of ultrasound scanning includes receiving a first dataset representing ultrasonic scanning of a target anatomy of a patient in a two-dimensional mode and generating a two-dimensional ultrasound image o...