US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on Dec. 2 for "Registration system for cardiac ultrasound" (Washington, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,876, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Registration system for cardiac ultrasound" was invented by David Knapp (Bellevue, Wash.), Ryan Hebbler (Metairie, La.), Andrew Lundberg (Woodinville, Wash.) and Davin Dhatt (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound scanner, a patient-worn registration system configured in at least a one-way communication with an interventional instrument, and a processor system. The processor system is configured to determine, based on the ultrasound data and positional data of the ultrasound scanner, a first location ...