US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 8 for "Systems and methods for controlling volume rate" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,104, issued on July 8, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for controlling volume rate" was invented by Keith William Johnson (Lynwood, Wash.) and Anne Holmes (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for determining if a feature of interest is present in a volume or plane scanned by an imaging system. In examples, one or more imaging planes are analyzed for anatomical landmarks to determine whether a feature of interest is present. If the feature of interest is present, scan parameters may be determined to scan an adjusted vo...