US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Aug. 19 for "Acoustic registration of internal and external ultrasound probes" (Massachusetts, Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,190, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Acoustic registration of internal and external ultrasound probes" was invented by Sanghamithra Korukonda (Seattle), Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon (Andover, Mass.), Ameet Kumar Jain (Boston), Emil George Radulescu (Ossining, N.Y.) and Jean-Luc Robert (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustically registerable probe includes a transducer (212) to generate acoustic pulses, and a beamformer (222) coupled to the transducer to adjust a field of view of the acoustic pulses. The transducer is configured to iteratively send and rec...