US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Nov. 25 for "Automation of transvaginal ultrasound workflow" (Indian, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,349, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Automation of transvaginal ultrasound workflow" was invented by Pavan Annangi (Karnataka, India), Deepa Anand (Karnataka, India), Bhushan D Patil (Karnataka, India) and Stephan Anzengruber (Zipf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure provides systems and methods for improving a visualization of an image volume of a uterus and/or endometrium of a subject acquired using a transvaginal ultrasound system (TVUS). In one example, a method for the TVUS comprises extracting a medial axis of an endometrium of a received two-dimension...