ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,322, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Ultrasound guidance method and system" was invented by Shyam Bharat (Arlington, Mass.), Alvin Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Cambridge, Mass.), Balasundar Iyyavu Raju (North Andover, Mass.) and Jonathan Thomas Sutton (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system is for assisting a user in positioning an ultrasound probe relative to a subject's body. In use, the user moves the probe through a series of positions, and ultrasound image data is captured for each position, the data at each position corresponding to a ...