US Patent Issued to NewSouth Innovations on Sept. 16 for "Method and system for automatic 3D-FMBV measurements" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,759, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NewSouth Innovations Pty Ltd. (New South Wales, Australia).

"Method and system for automatic 3D-FMBV measurements" was invented by Alec Welsh (New South Wales, Australia) and Gordon Stevenson (New South Wales, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of quantifying a 3D fractional moving blood volume (3D-FMBV) in a tissue volume of a subject using an ultrasound system, including acquiring images of the tissue volume from a power doppler scan of the tissue volume; applying image enhancement settings to the images; segmenting an organ, tissue or region thereof from the image data; dete...