ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,758, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Teratech Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).
"Ultrasound 3D imaging system" was invented by Alice Chiang (Wayland, Mass.), William M. Wong (Milton, Mass.) and Steven R. Broadstone (Woburn, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention related to an ultrasound imaging system win which the scan head includes a beamformer circuit that performs far field subarray beamforming or includes a sparse array selecting circuit that actuates selected elements. When using a hierarchical two-stage or three-stage beamforming system, three dimensional ultrasound images can be generated in real-time. The i...