ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,584, issued on June 17, was assigned to BFLY Operations Inc (Burlington, Mass.).
"Methods and apparatuses for collection of ultrasound data" was invented by Alon Daks (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Audrey Howell (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Christophe Meyer (New York) and Robert Schneider (Killingworth, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for guiding a user to collect clinically usable ultrasound images is described. In some embodiments, an ultrasound device may automatically change the elevational steering angle of its ultrasound beam (e.g., using beamforming) in order to collect ultrasound data from different imaging planes within the subject...