US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 21 for "Automated maternal and prenatal health diagnostics from ultrasound blind sweep video sequences" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,859, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated maternal and prenatal health diagnostics from ultrasound blind sweep video sequences" was invented by Ryan Gomes (Mountain View, Calif.), Shravya Shetty (Mountain View, Calif.), Daniel Tse (Mountain View, Calif.), Chace Lee (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alex Starns (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is described for generating diagnostic information from a video sequence of ultrasound images acquired in "blind sweeps", i.e., without operator seeing ultrasound images as they are acquired. We disclose two different types of ...