US Patent Issued to BFLY Operations on Sept. 30 for "Ultrasonic imaging compression methods and apparatus" (Connecticut, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,857, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BFLY Operations Inc. (Guilford, Morocco).

"Ultrasonic imaging compression methods and apparatus" was invented by Jonathan M. Rothberg (Miami Beach, Fla.), Tyler S. Ralston (Clinton, Conn.), Nevada J. Sanchez (Guilford, Conn.) and Andrew J. Casper (Clinton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To implement a single-chip ultrasonic imaging solution, on-chip signal processing may be employed in the receive signal path to reduce data bandwidth and an output data module may be used to move data for all received channels off-chip as a digital data stream. The digitization of received signals on-chi...