US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on Oct. 21 for "Automated detection of lung slide to aid in diagnosis of pneumothorax" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,860, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Automated detection of lung slide to aid in diagnosis of pneumothorax" was invented by Thomas Michael Duffy (Bothell, Wash.), Davinder S. Dhatt (Bothell, Wash.), Paul Tomotaro Danset (Bothell, Wash.), Adam Benjamin Pely (Bothell, Wash.), Christopher Aleksandr White (Bothell, Wash.) and Diku Pranav Mandavia (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for performing automated detection of lung slide using a computing device (e.g., an ultrasound system, etc.) are disclosed. In some embodiments, the techniques determine lung slidi...