ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,156, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Making measurements of the hip" was invented by Jing Ping Xu (Shanghai) and Anthony M. Gades (Snohomish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for making a measurement of the hip in an ultrasound image, an ultrasound image of the hip is obtained. A spatial coherence map associated with one or more lags of the ultrasound waves associated with the ultrasound image is also obtained. Then a quality metric is determined based on the ultrasound image of the hip and the spatial coherence map. The quality metric indicates the suitability of...