US Patent Issued to BrightHeart on July 1 for "Systems and methods for improving detection of fetal congenital heart defects" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,197, issued on July 1, was assigned to BrightHeart SAS (Paris).

"Systems and methods for improving detection of fetal congenital heart defects" was invented by Christophe Gardella (Paris), Valentin Thorey (Paris), Eric Askinazi (Paris), Olivier Tranzer (Paris), Marilyne Levy (Paris), Bertrand Stos (Le Plessis Robinson, France) and Cecile Dupont (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for aiding the detection and diagnosis of critical heart defects during fetal ultrasound examinations, in which image data (e.g., motion video clips and/or image frames) is analyzed with machine learning algorithms to detect...