US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 7 for "Methods and systems for reviewing ultrasound images" (Norwegian, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,859, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to General Electric Co.

"Methods and systems for reviewing ultrasound images" was invented by Elina Sokulin (Tirat Carmel, Israel), Olivier Gerard (Oslo, Norway) and Svein Arne Aase (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods described herein generally relate to reviewing ultrasound images between different ultrasound exams. The systems and methods acquire a plurality of ultrasound images of an anatomical structure during a first ultrasound exam based on ultrasound data received from an ultrasound probe, analyze the ultrasound images to identify an anatomical characteri...