ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,610, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Milwaukee).

"Methods and systems for pulse circuits of ultrasound transducers" was invented by Bjornar Sten-Nilsen (Horten, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for a pulse circuit of a transmitter of an ultrasound system. In one example, the system may include a pulse circuit with transistors driving an ultrasound transducer of the ultrasound system, whereby the switching on and off of the transistors is mediated via one or more dynamic currents flowing from the gates of one or more of the transistors."

The patent was fi...