US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 25 for "Hybrid robotic-image plane control of a tee probe" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,104, issued on March 25, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Hybrid robotic-image plane control of a tee probe" was invented by Paul Thienphrapa (Cambridge, Mass.), Sean Joseph Kyne (Brookline, Mass.), Molly Lara Flexman (Melrose, Mass.), Ameet Kumar Jain (Boston), Sibo Li (Waltham, Mass.), Kunal Vaidya (Boston) and Marcin Arkadiusz Balicki (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The following relates generally to systems and methods of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) automation. Some aspects relate to a TEE probe with ultrasonic transducers on a distal end of the TEE probe. In some im...