ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,568, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for generating and estimating unknown and unacquired ultrasound data" was invented by Bae-Hyung Kim (London), Azra Alizad (Rochester, Minn.), Mostafa Fatemi (Rochester, Minn.) and Viksit Kumar (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for reconstructing, estimating, or otherwise generating unacquired, undetected, unreconstructed, or otherwise unknown ultrasound data using machine learning algorithms are provided. Thus, the systems and methods described in the present disclosure...