US Patent Issued to Teratech on May 26 for "Tablet ultrasound system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,979, issued on May 26, was assigned to Teratech Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Tablet ultrasound system" was invented by Alice 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 field sub...