US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Aug. 26 for "Scanning assembly and ultrasound imaging device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,705, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Scanning assembly and ultrasound imaging device" was invented by Hongyu Zhao (Wuxi, China), Bo Dan (Wuxi, China), Qiang Yao (Wuxi, China), Chunyan Qi (Wuxi, China), Kuo Wang (Wuxi, China), Xin Wang (Wuxi, China) and Lu Jin (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning assembly, including: a housing, wherein a lower portion of the housing comprises an opening, and the opening can be closed by tissue to be scanned; a pressure difference generating device, disposed on the housing and used to generate an air pressure difference between the int...