ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,891, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Clartus Mobile Health Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).
"Speckle reduction and compression improvement of ultrasound images" was invented by Laurent Pelissier (North Vancouver, Canada), Kris Dickie (Vancouver, Canada) and Narges Afsham (Coquitlam, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for generating high quality, high frame rate images in a handheld or hand-carried ultrasonic imaging machine. The apparatus includes an image enhancer to reduce speckle noise and improve the compressibility of the resulting image. This approach reduces the required hardware and power consumption t...