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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:
Mar. 15, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2003
Applicant:
Andrea Trucco, Genoa, IT;
Inventor:
Andrea Trucco, Genoa, IT;
Assignee:
Esaote, S.p.A., Casale Monferrato, IT;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B008/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for ultrasonic imaging in which acoustic, and in particular ultrasonic, receiver beamforming utilizes delays which are partially determined as a function of the frequency of the received signals and as a function of the position of the individual receiving transducers in the entire array of receiving transducers.