ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,580, issued on June 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Contextual multiplanar reconstruction of three-dimensional ultrasound imaging data and associated devices, systems, and methods" was invented by David Nigel Roundhill (Woodinville, Wash.), Tobias Klinder (Uelzen, Germany), Alexander Schmidt-Richberg (Hamburg, Germany), Matthias Lenga (Mainz, Germany), Eliza Teodora Orasanu (Hamburg, Germany) and Cristian Lorenz (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging system includes a processor circuit in communication with an ultrasound transducer configured to receive three-dim...