ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,506, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Super-resolution ultrasonic imaging method and ultrasonic imaging system" was invented by Yali Ouyang (Shenzhen, China), Maodong Sang (Shenzhen, China) and Lei Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic imaging method includes: generating and displaying a first contrast enhanced image in real time under a normal contrast enhanced mode; switching from the normal contrast enhanced mode to a super-resolution contrast enhanced imaging mode, obtaining second ultrasonic echo signals to generate and display a ...