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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steven Charles Miller, Waukesha, WI (US);
Paul Lawrence Mullen, Waukesha, WI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 0/800 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 0/800 ;
Abstract
A three dimensional position sensor (,) provides roll, pitch and displacement information to a computer concerning the position of a hand-held object, such as a transducer probe (,). A switch (,) built into the probe is manipulated to alter the image of a subject on a display (,) and also to alter various symbols presented on the display.