ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,638, issued on March 11, was assigned to Exo Imaging Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pose and gesture detection for control of ultrasound imaging systems" was invented by Tony Constantinides (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging system is controlled by pose and/or gesture detection. The system may detect poses or gestures performed by a user, e.g., using a machine learning (ML) model that may include a neural network, and implement a command associated with the detected pose or gesture to control the ultrasound imaging system."

The patent was filed on May 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/319,722.

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