ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,893, issued on June 3, was assigned to DECISION SCIENCES MEDICAL COMPANY LLC (Poway, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging of an object" was invented by Dustin E. Kruse (Grand Island, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging using a beamformer that incorporates a model of the object. In some aspects, a system includes an array of transducers to transmit and/or receive acoustic signals at an object that forms a synthetic aperture of the system with the object, an object beamformer unit to (i) beamform the object coheren...