US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 11 for "Ultrasound system for detecting lung consolidation" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,887, issued on March 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Ultrasound system for detecting lung consolidation" was invented by Jingping Xu (Shanghai), Balasundar Iyyavu Raju (North Andover, Mass.) and Anthony M. Gades (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods configured to identify lung abnormalities by determining a uniformity characteristic of a region of interest within ultrasound image frames. Systems can include an ultrasound transducer configured to acquire echoes responsive to ultrasound pulses transmitted toward a...