ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,274, issued on July 15.

"Systems and methods for acquiring ultrasonic data" was invented by Raghu Raghavan (Baltimore) and Timothy Poston (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for obtaining and reconstructing imaging data are disclosed. The methods and systems can comprise: receiving signals; storing pixel locations for the received signals; computing parameters from the received signals and pixel locations; optimizing the parameters; and performing optimized reconstruction of the images."

The patent was filed on Sept. 14, 2022, under Application No. 17/932,168.

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