US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Jan. 13 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for annotating medical images" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,094, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for annotating medical images" was invented by Anup Agarwal (Mill Creek, Wash.), Shannon Renee Fox (Everett, Wash.) and Conner David Pitts (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging system may analyze acquired images, location and orientation of an ultrasound probe, and usage data to provide suggested annotations for the acquired images. The annotations may have various forms, such as text and bodymarker icons."

The patent was filed on June 10, 2022, under Application No. 18/574,129....