US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Dec. 30 for "Ultrasound imaging system and method for segmenting an object from a volumetric ultrasound dataset" (Indian, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,996, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Ultrasound imaging system and method for segmenting an object from a volumetric ultrasound dataset" was invented by Pavan Annangi (Bangalore, India), Deepa Anand (Bangalore, India), Stephan Anzengruber (Ried im Innkreis, Austria), Bhushan D. Patil (Pune, India) and Arathi Sreekumari (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and ultrasound imaging systems are provided for segmenting an object. In one example, a method includes accessing a volumetric ultrasound dataset, receiving an identification of a seed point for an object...