US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on April 15 for "Systems and methods for guiding an ultrasound probe" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,580, issued on April 15, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for guiding an ultrasound probe" was invented by Marcin Arkadiusz Balicki (Cambridge, Mass.) and Paul Thienphrapa (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound device (10) includes a probe (12) including a tube (14) sized for insertion into a patient and an ultrasound transducer (18) disposed at a distal end (16) of the tube. A camera (20) is mounted at the distal end of the tube in a fixed spatial relationship to the ultrasound transducer. At least one electronic processor (28) is programmed to: control th...