US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for finding hepato-renal indices" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,000, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for finding hepato-renal indices" was invented by Sheng-Wen Huang (Ossining, N.Y.), Hua Xie (Cambridge, Mass.), Man M Nguyen (Melrose, Mass.), Vijay Thakur Shamdasani (Kenmore, Mass.) and William Tao Shi (Wakefield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for calculating hepato-renal index (HRI) values from radiofrequency (RF) data are disclosed herein. The RF data may include fundamental frequency components, harmonic frequency components, or a combination thereof. Signal intensities within regions of inte...