US Patent Issued to Sonire Therapeutics on March 24 for "Ultrasound imaging probe for HIFU radiation device, and ultrasound image display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,384, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sonire Therapeutics Inc. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound imaging probe for HIFU radiation device, and ultrasound image display device" was invented by Jun Okamoto (Tokyo), Tohru Satoh (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Ueyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method to clearly indicate the direction of an observation plane of an ultrasound imaging probe to a practitioner. This ultrasound imaging probe includes a probe tip at which ultrasound waves are transmitted and received. An indicator of the direction of the observation plane in which an ultrasound image is acquired is applied to the probe tip....