ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,449, issued on May 5, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Ultrasonic imaging system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Minyu Gu (Wuxi, China), Ke Tao (Wuxi, China), Gang Liu (Wuxi, China), Zhiwen Wang (Wuxi, China), Shangjie Du (Wuxi, China) and Junjun Chen (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic imaging method, including: during movement of a first ultrasonic transducer, receiving, over a period of time, an ultrasonic echo signal from tissue to be imaged; generating a first ultrasonic image set on the basis of the ultrasonic echo signals, the first ultrasonic imag...