ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,994, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Automatic control and enhancement of 4D ultrasound images" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods that include emitting an ultrasound beam, having a predefined field of view (FOV), from an array of ultrasound transducers in a catheter in an organ of a patient. Echo signals are received in the array, in response to the ultrasound beam. A position of a target object is estimated within the FOV. When the estimated position of the target obj...