US Patent Issued to QView Medical on Aug. 19 for "Automated breast ultrasound equipment and methods using enhanced navigator aids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,185, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QView Medical Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Automated breast ultrasound equipment and methods using enhanced navigator aids" was invented by Wei Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Shih-Ping Wang (Los Altos, Calif.), Alexander Schneider (Los Altos, Calif.), Harlan Romsdahl (Half Moon Bay, Calif.) and Thomas Neff (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system acquiring, processing and displaying breast ultrasound images in a way that makes breast ultrasound screening more practical and thus more widely used, and reduces the occurrence of missing cancers in screening and diagnosis, using a...