ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,196, issued on July 1, was assigned to DANDELION TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Vero Beach, Fla.).
"Ultrasound probe with an integrated needle assembly and a computer program product, a method and a system for providing a path for inserting a needle of the ultrasound probe" was invented by Paul Adams (Vero Beach, Fla.), Christopher Vetter (Dublin, Ohio) and Michael Andrew Holtman (McLean, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises an ultrasound probe housing containing ultrasound probes configured to produce images inside a body of a patient and having an ambient side, a body side, a first side that connects the ambient side to the body...