US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on July 22 for "Air filled chamber in an ultrasound probe" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,456, issued on July 22, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Air filled chamber in an ultrasound probe" was invented by Marco Brusaca (Attersee am Attersee, Austria), Wolfgang Neuwirth (Attersee am Attersee, Austria), Christian Heinrich (Neukirchen an der Vockla, Austria) and Reinhold Bruestle (Frankenburg am Hausruck, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound probe comprises an air chamber unit that includes a transducer slot, where the transducer slot is configured to receive a transducer assembly, the air chamber unit comprises at least one sealed cavity and each of the at least one sealed cavi...