US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Nov. 18 for "Methods and systems for obtaining a 3D vector flow field" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,879, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Methods and systems for obtaining a 3D vector flow field" was invented by Bo Zhang (Paris) and Odile Bonnefous (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for obtaining a 3D vector flow field from color Doppler ultrasound data. The method includes obtaining color Doppler ultrasound data from a plurality of acquisition locations, wherein the plurality of acquisition locations comprises a target acquisition location and one or more additional acquisition locations, wherein the one or more additional ac...