ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,035, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Ultrasound probe" was invented by Takito Inukai (Isehara Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuji Onimura (Fujinomiya Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound probe includes a probe body including a side surface and a bottom surface, a display unit on the side surface, first and second imaging units arranged on the bottom surface, separated from each other in a first direction, and each configured to acquire a cross-sectional image of a human body, and a controller configured to determine a position of a blood vessel using the cross-sectional image acquired by each of...