US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SonoSite on Nov. 3 for "Ultrasound scanner with an impact-resistance system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,552, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Ultrasound scanner with an impact-resistance system" was invented by Jimin Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Edward Tea (Bellevue, Wash.) and Bin-Da Chan (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an ultrasound scanner with an impact-resistance system are described. In some implementations, the impact-resistance system reduces acceleration components associated with an impact force applied to an enclosure of the ultrasound scanner or directly to an acoustic lens of a transducer array of the ultrasound scanner. The impact-resistance syst...