ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,894, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"System and methods for machine learning driven contouring cardiac ultrasound data" was invented by Craig Jonathan Goergen (West Lafayette, Ind.), Frederick William Damen (West Lafayette, Ind.), Guang Lin (West Lafayette, Ind.) and David Taylor Newton (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for machine learning driven contouring of cardiac ultrasound data is provided. A system may receive cardiac imaging data generated by an ultrasound device directed at a left ventricle of a heart. The imaging data may include a time...