ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,289, issued on April 29, was assigned to ORTHOSON Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Modular ultrasound apparatus and methods" was invented by Shan Qiao (Headington, Great Britain), Delphine Elbes (Headington, Great Britain), Olga Boubriak (Headington, Great Britain), Robin Cleveland (Headington, Great Britain) and Constantin Coussios (Headington, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure wave system comprises a plurality of modules (200). Each module (200) comprises a plurality of pressure wave transducer elements, and connection means (216, 218, 220) operable to connect the modules together in each of a plurality of differ...