ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,880, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Ultrasonic imaging method and ultrasonic imaging system" was invented by Jiajiu Yang (Wuxi, China), Yao Ding (Wuxi, China), Zhiqiang Jiang (Wuxi, China), Hongjian Jiang (Wuxi, China), Yi Wang (Wuxi, China), Yuanyuan Chen (Wuxi, China) and Hujie Jiang (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the present application is an ultrasonic imaging method including generating an ultrasound image, determining an initial position of a tracking point of an area to be tracked in the ultrasound image, receiving a first tracking instruction from an...