ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,291, issued on April 29, was assigned to H-NEXT GMBH (Erlangen, Germany).

"Ultrasonic system and imaging ultrasonic method" was invented by Oliver Heid (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic system includes an ultrasonic probe and a data processing unit which is physically separate from the ultrasonic probe, runs on an operating system and has a receiving memory and a transmission memory. A real-time bus system is for data coupling of the ultrasonic probe to the memories. A probe system manages data within the ultrasonic probe, the clock inaccuracy of the probe system is at least three orders of magnitude less...