US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 4 for "Ultrasound imaging system using an array of transducer elements and an imaging method" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,486, issued on March 4, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Ultrasound imaging system using an array of transducer elements and an imaging method" was invented by Marc Godfriedus Marie Notten (Elsloo, Netherlands), Peter Dirksen (Hilversum, Netherlands), Nico Maris Adriaan de Wild (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Rudiger Gunter Mauczok (Erkelenz, Germany) and Antonia Cornelia van Rens (Nuenen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an ultrasound imaging system, comprising an array of transducer elements grouped into element groups, wherein the element groups comprise a plurality of ...