US Patent Issued to Sonivate Medical on July 14 for "Wearable portable ultrasound probe" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,136, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sonivate Medical Inc..

"Wearable portable ultrasound probe" was invented by James T. Hatlan (Portland, Ore.), Austen Angell (Portland, Ore.) and William McDonough (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are wearable ultrasound probes for use in trauma triage and assessment. The probes include a housing having a dorsal side and a palmar side, a proximal end and a distal end, and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween. The proximal end comprises a finger-receiving aperture that is configured to form a sleeve including a tubular wall member formed from an elastomeric material ...