ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,788, issued on May 13.
"Grip apparatus for ultrasound imaging transducer device" was invented by Martin Joel Pollock (Winnipeg, Canada) and Bryan Clinton Kitchen (Winnipeg, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grip apparatus has a first body portion for gripping in a hand of an operator and a second body portion that releasably or integrally supports the acoustic window of an ultrasound imaging transducer. The first body portion has an upper surface parallel to the acoustic window at a location spaced upwardly from the acoustic window and a post extending upwardly from the upper surface to a radial enlargement such that the post i...