ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,261, issued on March 18, was assigned to DESKI (Bordeaux, France).

"Device for acquiring a sequence of ultrasonograms and associated method" was invented by Olivier Moal (Bordeaux, France), Bertrand Moal (Bordeaux, France) and Emilie Roger (Bordeaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to receive in real time ultrasound images acquired by an ultrasound probe, includes a first calculator for implementing a classifier to classify in real time the received ultrasound images and to associate each image with a class for generating a quality indicator as a function of the associated class, a display for displaying the received ...