US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 25 for "Method and system for adaptive beamforming of ultrasound signals" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,503, issued on March 25, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and system for adaptive beamforming of ultrasound signals" was invented by Wouter Marinus Benjamin Luijten (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ruud Johannes Gerardus Van Sloun (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Frederik Jan De Bruijn (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Harold Agnes Wilhelmus Schmeitz (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for adaptive beamforming of ultrasound signals, the method comprising the steps of (a) Receiving time-aligned RF signals acquired by multiple ultrasound transducer elements in...