US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on July 15 for "Method and system for providing an objective image quality metric after ultrasound image acquisition and prior to permanent storage" (Norwegian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,548, issued on July 15, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Method and system for providing an objective image quality metric after ultrasound image acquisition and prior to permanent storage" was invented by Svein Arne Aase (Trondheim, Norway) and Kai-Uwe Lempertz (Taunusstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing an objective image quality metric of an image loop of ultrasound images after acquisition of the image loop and prior to permanently storing the image loop is provided. The method includes performing, by an ultrasound probe of an ultrasound system, an acquisiti...