US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 21 for "Ultrasound imaging" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,516, issued on July 21, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Ultrasound imaging" was invented by McKee Dunn Poland (Andover, Mass.) and James Christopher Taylor (State College, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for initiating ultrasound scanning in a way that reduces power consumption. An actuation mechanism (250) generates an actuation signal that indicates whether or not there is an interaction (between the actuation mechanism and an operator) that increases a force applied by an ultrasound probe (210) to a subject (290), e.g., from a baseline force. Ultrasound scanning is initiated respo...