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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2020
Applicant:

Bfly Operations, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);

Inventors:

Jungwook Yang, Burlington, MA (US);

Daniel Rea McMahill, Woodstock, GA (US);

Kailiang Chen, Branford, CT (US);

Nevada J. Sanchez, Guilford, CT (US);

Assignee:

BFLY OPERATIONS, INC., Burlington, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/16 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/52025 (2013.01); H03M 7/16 (2013.01); A61B 8/4236 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the technology described herein related to an ultrasound processing unit (UPU) including gray-coding circuitry configured to convert standard binary-coded digital ultrasound signals to gray-coded digital ultrasound signals and gray-decoding circuitry coupled to the gray-coding circuitry and configured to convert the gray-coded digital ultrasound signals to standard binary-coded digital ultrasound signals. The UPU may include an analog portion, a digital portion, and a data bus configured to route the gray-coded digital ultrasound signals from the analog portion to the digital portion subsequent to converting the standard binary-coded digital ultrasound signals to the gray-coded digital ultrasound signals. The analog portion may include multiple analog front-ends (AFEs), the gray-coding circuitry, and an analog-to-digital converter. The digital portion may include the gray-decoding circuitry. A data bus from one AFE may pass over another AFE.


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