ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,256, issued on June 3, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"3D ultrasound imaging system" was invented by Irina Waechter-Stehle (Hamburg, Germany) and Juergen Weese (Norderstedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging system having an image processor configured to receive at volume data resulting from a three-dimensional ultrasound scan of a body and to provide corresponding display data, an anatomy detector configured to detect a position and orientation of an anatomical object of interest within the volume data, a slice generator for generating a plurality of two-dimensional slice...