ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,201, issued on July 1, was assigned to UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY WONJU CAMPUS (Gangwon-Do, South Korea).

"Endoscopic image diagnosis device having disposable ultrasound probe" was invented by Hee Man Kim (Gangwon-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic image diagnosis device having a disposable ultrasound probe is disclosed. An endoscopic image diagnosis device of the present invention has an ultrasound module provided with an ultrasound probe and detachably coupled to the front end of a scope; an ultrasound image diagnosis device electrically connected to the ultrasound probe to process an...