ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,331, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).
"Timing pickoff circuit" was invented by Jan Bollenbeck (Eggolsheim, Germany), Martin Judenhofer (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Nan Zhang (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a plurality of electrical transducers, each of the plurality of electrical transducers comprising an anode and a cathode, a plurality of common-base amplifiers, an input of each of the plurality of common-base amplifiers connected to a cathode of a respective one of the plurality of electrical transducers, a summation point to which an output ...