US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Jan. 27 for "Data transfer on ultrasound probe signal wires" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,568, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Data transfer on ultrasound probe signal wires" was invented by Harald Weichenberger (Oberhofen am Irrsee, Austria) and Reinhold Brustle (Frankenburg am Hausruck, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for increasing a data transfer rate and an amount of digital data that may be transmitted to a probe of an ultrasound system, including beam setup data used by modern electronic four-dimensional (e4D) probes to generate a transmit signal. Transmit/receive channels of a cable coupling the probe to the console may be us...