US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 1 for "Ultrasound-based device localization" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,203, issued on July 1, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Ultrasound-based device localization" was invented by Sibo Li (Waltham, Mass.), Kunal Vaidya (Boston), Molly Lara Flexman (Melrose, Mass.), Alyssa Torjesen (Charlestown, Mass.), Ameet Kumar Jain (Boston), Alvin Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Shyam Bharat (Arlington, Mass.) and Ramon Quido Erkamp (Swampscott, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for localizing a three-dimensional field of view of a beamforming ultrasound imaging probe based on a position indicator disposed within said field of view. The beamforming ultrasound imaging probe tra...