US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on Nov. 3 for "Ultrasound probe with integrated controls" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,555, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Ultrasound probe with integrated controls" was invented by Patrick Nally (Seattle), Tyler Dawson (Edmonds, Wash.), Kenji Kimura (Seattle), David Knapp (Bellevue, Wash.), Floris Kruger (Bothell, Wash.), Lisa Spencer (Bothell, Wash.), Craig Chamberlain (Seattle), Brittney Klingenberg (Bothell, Wash.) and Laurie Johnson (North Bend, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound probe and an ultrasound system are disclosed. In some embodiments, the ultrasound probe includes a probe body having a user interface with controls and a mode selector. In some e...