ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,890, issued on March 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing acquisition feedback" was invented by Shriram Sethuraman (Lexington, Mass.), Sibo Li (Waltham, Mass.), William Tao Shi (Wakefield, Mass.), James Robertson Jago (Seattle) and Thanasis Loupas (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User feedback on acquisition of ultrasound data may be provided to a user. The feedback may indicate a quality of the acquisition and/or the reliability of the measurements calculated from the ultrasound data, for example, the volume flow measurements calculated...