US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SonoSite on Nov. 3 for "Anatomy-directed ultrasound" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,541, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Anatomy-directed ultrasound" was invented by Davin Dhatt (Woodinville, Wash.), Paul Danset (Kirkland, Wash.), Thomas Duffy (Stanwood, Wash.), Christopher White (Vancouver, Canada) and Andrew Lundberg (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for anatomy-directed ultrasound are described. In some implementations, an anatomy-directed ultrasound system generates ultrasound data from an ultrasound scan of an anatomy, which is a bodily structure of an organism (e.g., human or animal). The system identifies organs represented in the...