US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Oct. 21 for "Methods and systems for clinical scoring a lung ultrasound" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,861, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Methods and systems for clinical scoring a lung ultrasound" was invented by Alvin Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Jochen Kruecker (Andover, Mass.), Naveen Balaraju (Dorchester, Mass.) and Shubham Patil (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (100) for analyzing ultrasound image data, comprising: (i) receiving (120) ultrasound image data for a patient, comprising at least one lung-related clinical feature; (ii) selecting (130) a first clinical feature; (iii) analyzing (140), using an image processing algorithm, the ultrasound image d...