US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on July 15 for "System and method for extracting a two-dimensional short axis view of a left atrial appendage" (Norwegian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,279, issued on July 15, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for extracting a two-dimensional short axis view of a left atrial appendage" was invented by Hongjian Jiang (Jiangsu, China) and Olivier Gerard (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically acquiring an ultrasound volume to extract a two-dimensional short axis view of a left atrial appendage are provided. The method includes acquiring, by an ultrasound probe, a two-dimensional long axis ultrasound image view of a left atrial appendage. The method includes automatically detecting a first point o...