US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on Sept. 8 for "Wearable ultrasound" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,910, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Wearable ultrasound" was invented by Saeed Aliakbari (Snohomish, Wash.), Andrew Lundberg (Seattle), Craig Chamberlain (Seattle), Keith Williams (Bothell, Wash.) and Thomas Endres (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable ultrasound device and method for using the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the wearable ultrasound device includes an ultrasound transducer configured to transmit ultrasound signals and receive reflected ultrasound based on the ultrasound signals and a fastener configured to secure the wearable ultrasound device...