US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore, Singapore Health Services on Oct. 28 for "Ultrasound imaging method and system for identifying an anatomical feature of a spine" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,282, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore) and Singapore Health Services Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Ultrasound imaging method and system for identifying an anatomical feature of a spine" was invented by Jun Ma (Singapore), Kok Kiong Tan (Singapore), Ban Leong Sng (Singapore) and Tiong Heng Sia (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultrasound imaging methods for identifying an anatomical feature of a spine are described. In an embodiment, the method comprises: receiving a transverse ultrasound image of a portion of the spine; extracting features of the portion of the spine from the image base...