US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for microvessel ultrasound imaging" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,973, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for microvessel ultrasound imaging" was invented by Azra Alizad (Rochester, Minn.), Mostafa Fatemi (Rochester, Minn.) and Rohit Nayak (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described here are systems and methods for generating microvessel images from image data acquired with an ultrasound system while analyzing the image data in realtime, or retrospectively, to generate a performance descriptor that can be used to assess data quality and/or motion correction quality; to adaptively suppress nois...