US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Sept. 22 for "Multi-patch array, ultrasound system, and method for obtaining an extended field of view" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,762, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Multi-patch array, ultrasound system, and method for obtaining an extended field of view" was invented by Man Nguyen (Melrose, Mass.), Shyam Bharat (Arlington, Mass.) and Nico Maris Adriaan De Wild (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-patch ultrasound array according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of patches of transducer elements, the plurality of patches arranged along a first direction of the array, and a frame connecting the plurality of patches such that adjacent ones of the plurality of patches...