US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 7 for "Ultrasound imaging system providing needle insertion guidance" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,920, issued on July 7, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Ultrasound imaging system providing needle insertion guidance" was invented by Shannon Renee Fox (Everett, Wash.), Changhong Hu (Bothell, Wash.), Kyong Chang (Mill Creek, Wash.), James Robertson Jago (Seattle) and Thanasis Loupas (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging system for needle insertion guidance uses a curved array transducer to scan an image field with unsteered beams as a needle is inserted into the image field. Due to differences in the angle of incidence between the radially directed beams and the need...