US Patent Issued to Clarius Mobile Health on March 18 for "Cooling unit for an ultrasound imaging apparatus, and related ultrasound systems" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,270, issued on March 18, was assigned to Clarius Mobile Health Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Cooling unit for an ultrasound imaging apparatus, and related ultrasound systems" was invented by Kwun-Keat Chan (Vancouver, Canada), Binda Zhang (Surrey, Canada) and Daniel Rahardja (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultrasound systems comprise an ultrasound imaging apparatus operable to acquire ultrasound image data and a cooling unit configured to detachably couple to the ultrasound imaging apparatus, wherein the cooling unit may be cordless and comprise an active cooling element for removing heat from the ultrasound imaging ap...