US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on July 29 for "Systems and methods for plane wave compounding in ultrasound imaging" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,647, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for plane wave compounding in ultrasound imaging" was invented by Hyungkyi Lee (Rochester, Minn.), Matthew W. Urban (Rochester, Minn.) and James F. Greenleaf (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for Plane Wave Compounding ("PWC") are provided for improving image quality with reduced phase shift errors. The initial phase difference ("IPD") between two PW transmissions is related to the phase shift error. When the absolute value of IPD is larger than Pi/2, the phase shift er...