US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on July 14 for "Locking device for scanning assembly of ultrasound imaging apparatus and ultrasound imaging apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,132, issued on July 14, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Locking device for scanning assembly of ultrasound imaging apparatus and ultrasound imaging apparatus" was invented by Donghui Fang (Wuxi, China), Qiang Yao (Wuxi, China), Bo Dan (Wuxi, China) and Junjian Meng (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging apparatus and a locking apparatus for a scanning assembly in the ultrasound imaging apparatus. The locking apparatus includes: a scanning assembly connecting apparatus, one end of which has a ball-head structure and the other end of which is connected to the scanning assembly; ...