ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,260, issued on March 18, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Ultrasound system and method" was invented by Gerardus Henricus Maria Gijsbers (Liempde, Netherlands), Alexander Kolen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Harm Jan Willem Belt (Weert, Netherlands), Nenad Mihajlovic (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Jean-Luc Francois-Marie Robert (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an ultrasound system (10) comprising a first non-invasive ultrasound probe (14) configured to acquire first ultrasound data having a first field of view; a second invasive ultrasound probe (16) config...