US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods for continuous ultrafast ultrasound beamforming with programmable logic" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,877, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for continuous ultrafast ultrasound beamforming with programmable logic" was invented by Michael Oelze (Mahomet, Ill.), Pengfei Song (Champaign, Ill.) and Zhengchang Kou (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for ultrafast imaging include: a memory having stored thereon a delay profile matrix and a field programmable gate array (FPGA) coupled with the memory. The delay profile matrix comprises a two-dimensional matrix in which each row corresponds to a delay profile at a particu...