US Patent Issued to PIUR IMAGING on Aug. 5 for "Method and apparatus for generating a combined three-dimensional ultrasound image" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,821, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PIUR IMAGING GMBH (Vienna).

"Method and apparatus for generating a combined three-dimensional ultrasound image" was invented by Robert Bauer (Unterhaching, Germany) and Mina Hany Hanna Sedra (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for generating a combined three-dimensional ultrasound image of a body portion are described. Therein, two ultrasound scans are preformed, using a relative tracking system, specifically an inertial tracking, and two partial volume images are generated therefrom. The first and second volumes have an overlapping volume containing a predetermined a...