US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on June 17 for "Ultrasound system with an artificial neural network for guided liver imaging" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,570, issued on June 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Ultrasound system with an artificial neural network for guided liver imaging" was invented by Hua Xie (Cambridge, Mass.), Christine Menking Swisher (San Diego), Claudia Errico (Cambridge, Mass.), Vijay Thakur Shamdasani (Kenmore, Wash.) and Yinhui Deng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods for ultrasonically inspecting biological tissue, such as liver and for automatically identifying and acquiring a view suitable for hepatic-renal echo-intensity ratio quantification, u...