ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,599, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG MEDISON Co. LTD. (Hongcheon-gun, South Korea).
"Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and method of operating the same" was invented by Kang-sik Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Bae-hyeong Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jong-keun Song (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a two-dimensional (2D) transducer array in which a plurality of transducers that transmit/receive an ultrasound signal to/from an object are arranged in two dimensions; an analog beamformer configured to perform analog beamforming in a first direction, and perform ...