ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,957, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Ultrasound imaging method and system, and storage medium" was invented by Siying Wang (Wuxi, China), Morgan Jakobsen (Horten, Norway) and Le Xu (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging system that performs real-time ultrasound imaging of tissue to be imaged, generates a series of ultrasound images and parameter measurement results; displays a decision tree regarding the tissue to be imaged, the decision tree comprising nodes, the nodes comprising a root node, a plurality of internal nodes and a plurality of leaf nodes, the ro...