US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Oct. 7 for "Spherical joint, spherical joint assembly, and ultrasonic imaging device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,752, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Spherical joint, spherical joint assembly, and ultrasonic imaging device" was invented by Sheng Xu (Wuxi, China), Hongyu Zhao (Wuxi, China), Qiang Yao (Wuxi, China), Liping Chen (Wuxi, China), Bing Li (Wuxi, China) and Bo Dan (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spherical joint includes a body portion and a blocking portion. The body portion includes a ball portion and a joint portion. The ball portion and the joint portion have an inner surface that links the two portions together in an axial direction and an outer surface opposite to the ...