ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,372, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Ultrasound imaging system with transmit apodization" was invented by Changhong Hu (Bothell, Wash.), Bernard Joseph Savord (Andover, Mass.) and Jeffrey Daniel Sherman (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital transmit beamformer for an ultrasound system has a waveform sample memory which stores sequences of samples of different pulse transmit waveforms of differing pulse widths. The memory is shared by a plurality of transmit channels, each of which can access its own selected sample sequence, independent of the selections by o...