ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,553, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Method and system for controlling time gain compensation physical switches" was invented by Gang Liu (Wuxi, China) and Xingti Liu (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a plurality of time gain compensation physical switches. The method includes: performing a current ultrasonic scan; determining current positions of the plurality of TGC physical switches; determining target positions of the plurality of TGC physical switches; and simultaneously displaying the current positions and the target positions of the plurality ...