ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,918, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CLOUDSTREAM MEDICAL IMAGING INC. (Houston).

"Acquisition and processing of V-wave ultrasound data using a linear or curved array transducer" was invented by Chengbin Peng (Houston) and Jun Tang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound system includes: a V-wave ultrasound data acquisition system with a transducer that includes an array of transducer elements, the array of transducer elements including a first sub-array and a second sub-array; a V-wave ultrasound beamformer to receive ultrasound beams from the V-wave ultrasound data acquisition system and generate ultrasound images; ...