US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Aug. 18 for "Ultrasound imaging system having digital ultrasonic imaging devices" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,346, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Ultrasound imaging system having digital ultrasonic imaging devices" was invented by Bernard Joseph Savord (Andover, Mass.) and Thomas James Hunt (Pelham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound (US) imaging system (100) is disclosed. The US imaging system (100) includes an ultrasound imaging device (110) comprising a transducer; and a digital transducer interface (DTI (206)). The DTI (206) includes a plurality of transducer ports (309) each comprising a plurality of digital data streams adapted to transmit digitized echo output data...