US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on Oct. 6 for "Ultrasonic needle localization" (Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,689, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Ultrasonic needle localization" was invented by Jean Tsou (Seattle), Wei (Grace) Li (Bothell, Wash.), Jimin Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Adrian Prokop (Seattle), Ryan Hammond (Tacoma, Wash.), Yong Zhou (Woodinville, Wash.) and Thomas Endres (Sagle, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultrasound systems and methods that include and/or use interventional instruments (e.g., needles) are disclosed. In some embodiments, the ultrasound system has an interventional instrument having the at least one ultrasound transducer element attached to the interventional instr...