US Patent Issued to Teratech on March 31 for "Tablet ultrasound system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,893, issued on March 31, was assigned to Teratech Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Tablet ultrasound system" was invented by Alice M. Chiang (Wayland, Mass.), William M. Wong (Milton, Mass.) and Noah Berger (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments provide systems and methods for portable medical ultrasound imaging. Preferred embodiments utilize a tablet touchscreen display operative to control imaging and display operations without the need for using traditional keyboards or controls. Certain embodiments provide ultrasound imaging system in which the scan head includes a beamformer circuit that performs far fi...