US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on June 3 for "Methods and systems for imaging a needle from ultrasound imaging data" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,245, issued on June 3, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for imaging a needle from ultrasound imaging data" was invented by Alexander Sokulin (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Cynthia Owen (Powhatan, Ark.), Menachem Halmann (Monona, Wis.) and Dani Pinkovich (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for imaging a needle using an ultrasound imager. In one example, a method may include receiving a target path or a target area of a needle, and adjusting a steering angle of an ultrasound beam emitted from an ultrasound probe based on the target path or the...