ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,906, issued on April 22, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Methods and systems for determining complementary ultrasound views" was invented by Cybele Ciofolo-Veit (Meudon, France), Thierry Lefevre (Suresnes, France), Caroline Denise Francoise Raynaud (Paris) and Laurence Rouet (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an ultrasound imaging method for determining complementary views of interest based on an anomalous feature identified in a region of interest of an ultrasound image. The method includes obtaining an ultrasound image of a region of interest of a subject and identifying ...