ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,828, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BFLY OPERATIONS INC. (Burlington, Mass.).
"Methods and systems for coherence imaging in obtaining ultrasound images" was invented by Abraham Neben (Guilford, Conn.), Samuel Cherna (West Orange, N.J.) and Karl Thiele (St. Petersburg, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for coherence imaging may receive ultrasound signals each having a respective delay associated with a respective ultrasonic transducer element in an ultrasonic transducer array. The system may obtain an approximation of the auto-correlation of ultrasound signals without any auto-correlation calculation, and determine the ou...