ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,751, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Ultrasound data segmentation" was invented by Laurence Rouet (Paris), Haithem Boussaid (Chatenay Malabry, France), Caroline Denise Francoise Raynaud (Suresnes, France) and Cybele Ciofolo-Veit (Meudon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for segmenting a target anatomy in ultrasound data. Scan-converted ultrasound data is obtained within a scan-converted space in the Cartesian coordinate system. The scan-converted ultrasound data is transformed to de-scanned ultrasound data within a de-scanned space in the Toroidal coordinate system....