US Patent Issued to Esaote on July 8 for "Method for driving an ultrasound probe, ultrasound probe and ultrasound system comprising said ultrasound probe" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,110, issued on July 8, was assigned to Esaote S.p.A. (Genoa, Italy).

"Method for driving an ultrasound probe, ultrasound probe and ultrasound system comprising said ultrasound probe" was invented by Stefano De Beni (Genoa, Italy), Marco Crocco (Ovada, Italy) and Claudio Fertino (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically detecting of the probe which is selected for the use by the user without manual commands by the user and comprising monitoring the operational status of the probe by discriminating between probe not in use and probe in use by sensing at least the motion of the probe and by setting automatic...