US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on Sept. 22 for "Contextual processing of ultrasound data" (Washington, California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,774, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Contextual processing of ultrasound data" was invented by Davin Dhatt (Woodinville, Wash.), David Knapp (Bellevue, Wash.), Christopher Howard (Seattle), Kristine Kelly (San Diego) and Thomas Endres (Sagle, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound scanner configured to transmit ultrasound at a patient anatomy and generate ultrasound data as part of an ultrasound examination. The ultrasound system also includes an ultrasound machine configured to generate, based on the ultrasound data, an ultrasound image. The ult...