US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SonoSite on May 12 for "Multi-mode rolling-encoded ultrasound" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,677, issued on May 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Multi-mode rolling-encoded ultrasound" was invented by Yong Zhou (Woodinville, Wash.) and Jean Tsou (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a multi-mode rolling-encoded ultrasound are described. These systems and methods include an ultrasound device that provides an encoded ultrasound signal, which includes one or more multi-mode waveforms that contain multiple mode types, multiple variants from a single mode type, or a mixture of such. The encoded ultrasound signals are used to image or otherwise gather information from a target d...