US Patent Issued to Rivanna Medical on June 17 for "System and method for ultrasound spine shadow feature detection and imaging thereof" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,783, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rivanna Medical Inc. (Charlottesville, Va.).

"System and method for ultrasound spine shadow feature detection and imaging thereof" was invented by Frank William Mauldin Jr. (Charlottesville, Va.) and Adam Dixon (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for anatomical identification using ultrasonic imaging and acoustic shadow detection methods are provided. At least some embodiments of the disclosure comprise the following steps: acquiring ultrasound image; detecting shadow region; extracting shadow profile; filtering shadow profile with matched filter; identifyin...