ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,461, issued on July 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).
"Touchless input ultrasound control" was invented by Davinder S. Dhatt (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed herein for controlling an ultrasound machine using one or more touchless inputs. In one embodiment, the method for controlling operation of the ultrasound machine comprises obtaining one or more touchless inputs; determining one or more operations to control the ultrasound machine based on the one or more touchless inputs and machine state of the ultrasound machine; and controlling the ultrasound machi...