US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on June 17 for "Cardiac flow detection based on morphological modeling in medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,565, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Cardiac flow detection based on morphological modeling in medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging" was invented by Huseyin Tek (Princeton, N.J.), Bogdan Georgescu (Princeton, N.J.), Tommaso Mansi (Plainsboro, N.J.), Frank Sauer (Princeton, N.J.), Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton, N.J.), Helene C. Houle (San Jose, Calif.) and Ingmar Voigt (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For cardiac flow detection in echocardiography, by detecting one or more valves, sampling planes or flow regions spaced from the valve and/or based on multiple valves ...