US Patent Issued to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for quantitative imaging using ultrasound data" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,641, issued on May 27, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for quantitative imaging using ultrasound data" was invented by Hyeon-Min Bae (Daejeon, South Korea), Seokhwan Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Gibbeum Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Myeong Gee Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method of operating an image device comprises receiving an input of virtual tissues modeled with an arbitrary shape and a quantitative feature, simulating a TOF change or a signal strength change of ultrasound data having penetrated the virtual tissues mod...