ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,572, issued on June 17, was assigned to ArcScan Inc. (Golden, Colo.).

"Composite ultrasound images" was invented by Johan E. Giphart (Aurora, Colo.), Matthew G. Sassu (Denver), Andrew K. Levien (Morrison, Colo.) and John D. Watson (Evergreen, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, processes, and apparatuses are provided for imaging a body part of a patient such as an eye of the patient. In some embodiments, a process is provided for adjusting the readings from an ultrasound probe to account for the different speeds of sound through different portions of the eye. In various embodiments, a process is provided for combing multipl...