ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,044, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to WUHAN UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"System and method for ultrasound imaging" was invented by Rui Luo (Wuhan, China), Cheng He (Wuhan, China) and Oliver Heid (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure directs to a system and method for ultrasound imaging. The method may include obtaining a total count of detecting members of a detector of an ultrasound scanner and a directivity angle of each detecting member of the detector. The method may also include obtaining one or more focuses each of which corresponds to a transmission of ultrasound wave...