ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,832, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Dynamic power reduction technique for ultrasound systems" was invented by Justin M. Coughlin (Bothell, Wash.), Mitchell S. Kaplan (Bothell, Wash.), Michael R. Hansen (Bothell, Wash.) and William R. Ogle (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for dynamic power reduction in ultrasound systems are described. Subsystems including a first subsystem to be placed in a reduced power consumption state are determined. The first subsystem includes a receive path having a receiver to receive acoustic signals representing echoes. A con...