US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on Dec. 9 for "Computing device and methods of implementing an ultrasound system for guiding instrument insertion" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,953, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Computing device and methods of implementing an ultrasound system for guiding instrument insertion" was invented by Davinder S. Dhatt (Bothell, Wash.), Christopher Aleksandr White (Bothell, Wash.), Adam Benjamin Pely (Bothell, Wash.), Thomas Michael Duffy (Bothell, Wash.), Paul Tomotaro Danset (Bothell, Wash.) and Diku Pranav Mandavia (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for identifying blood vessels in ultrasound images and displaying blood vessels in ultrasound images are described. In some embodiments, the method is imp...