US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Jan. 13 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for identifying inhomogeneous liver fat" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,993, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for identifying inhomogeneous liver fat" was invented by Jing Ping Xu (Shanghai), Jiayin Zhou (Shanghai), Jun Ping Deng (Shanghai), William Tao Shi (Wakefield, Mass.) and Hua Xie (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging system may acquire an image of a liver. The liver may be segmented from the image. Parameters, such as image homogeneity map, intensity probability chart, and/or speckle size diagram, may be extracted from the liver portion of the image. The parameters may be used ...