US Patent Issued to Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instruments on Nov. 11 for "Automatic myocardial segmentation method in two-dimensional echocardiography" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,135, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instruments Co. Ltd. (Shantou, China).

"Automatic myocardial segmentation method in two-dimensional echocardiography" was invented by Delai Li (Shantou, China), Liexiang Fan (Shantou, China), Zhonghong Wu (Shantou, China), Bin Li (Shantou, China), Yuqiang Kang (Shantou, China), Haomiao Qiu (Shantou, China), Yu Wang (Shantou, China) and Zhongyun Wei (Shantou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic myocardial segmentation method in two-dimensional echocardiography includes: calculating and extracting ridge information in two-dimensional echocardiography;...