ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,257, issued on July 8, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Method and system for automatic segmentation and phase prediction in ultrasound images depicting anatomical structures that change over a patient menstrual cycle" was invented by Arathi Sreekumari (Calicut, India), Pavan Annangi (Bangalore, India), Bhushan Patil (Pune, India) and Stephan Anzengruber (Ried im Innkreis, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically segmenting and detecting a menstrual cycle phase in ultrasound images of anatomical structures that change over a patient menstrual cycle are provided. The met...