ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,208, issued on March 4, was assigned to BFLY Operations Inc (Burlington, Mass.).

"Quality indicators for collection of and automated measurement on ultrasound images" was invented by Alex Rothberg (New York), Igor Lovchinsky (New York), Jimmy Jia (New York), Tomer Gafner (Forest Hills, N.Y.), Matthew de Jonge (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Jonathan M. Rothberg (Miami Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology described herein relate to techniques for calculating, during imaging, a quality of a sequence of images collected during the imaging. Calculating the quality of the sequence of images may include calculating a p...