US Patent Issued to Esaote on May 20 for "Method of determining scan planes in the acquisition of ultrasound images and ultrasound system for the implementation of the method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,326, issued on May 20, was assigned to Esaote S.p.A. (Genoa, Italy).

"Method of determining scan planes in the acquisition of ultrasound images and ultrasound system for the implementation of the method" was invented by Nicola Guraschi (Genoa, Italy), Marco Crocco (Ovada, Italy) and Luca Zini (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scan planes in acquisition of ultrasound images and dimensional measurements of objects represented in the images are determined by: defining a body to be examined and a predetermined orientation of the scan plane which intersects said body along which plane at least one ultrasound image is acquired; ...