US Patent Issued to Monolithic Power Systems on Feb. 17 for "Spatial compounded harmonic imaging for medical ultrasound applications" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,997, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Spatial compounded harmonic imaging for medical ultrasound applications" was invented by Yat Shun Yiu (Waterloo, Canada), Adrian J. Y. Chee (Toronto) and Chung Ping Cheung (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable ultrasound imaging system includes a probe and a personal computer. The personal computer is connected to the probe by way of a THUNDERBOLT I/O interface. The probe includes a transducer that alternately transmits positive and negative ultrasound pulses to a target being imaged, which is a human body. Echoes of the ul...