ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,138, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Rendering of B-mode images based on tissue differentiation" was invented by Jean-Luc Francois-Marie Robert (Cambridge, Mass.), Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon (Andover, Mass.) and Benoit Jean-Dominique Bertrand Maurice Mory (Medford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, tissue types in B-mode images may be differentiated by multiparameter imaging and/or other segmentation techniques. The tissue types may be used to assign material properties to voxels of the B-mode image, such as color, translucency, and reflectivity. The ma...