US 11,751,843 B2
Ultrasound transducer holder for vascular assessments during hyperemic blood flow
Francisco Morales Acuna, El Paso, TX (US); Luis A. Ochoa, El Paso, TX (US); and Alvaro N. Gurovich, El Paso, TX (US)
Assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US)
Filed by Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US)
Filed on Oct. 3, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/591,798.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/768,794, filed on Nov. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0155117 A1, May 21, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/4209 (2013.01) [A61B 8/06 (2013.01); A61B 8/4455 (2013.01); A61B 8/4461 (2013.01); A61B 8/4483 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasound transducer probe holder device, comprising:
a trunk section with an orifice formed at a first end of the trunk section, the orifice in communication with a channel within the trunk section, wherein the orifice forms a lip at the first end of the trunk section;
a base unitarily formed with the trunk section, the base formed at a second end of the trunk section opposite the first end of the trunk section;
a sleeve removably located within the channel, wherein the sleeve abuts the lip such that the sleeve is retained within the trunk section; and
an adjustment screw fitted in the trunk section, wherein the adjustment screw is movable into the channel and abuts the sleeve to secure the sleeve to the trunk section.