US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Nov. 11 for "Quantification of blood flow with ultrasound B-mode imaging" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,318, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Quantification of blood flow with ultrasound B-mode imaging" was invented by Ankur Kapoor (Plainsboro, N.J.), Rickard C. Loftman (Menlo Park, Calif.), Tommaso Mansi (Plainsboro, N.J.), Kutay F. Ustuner (Mountain View, Calif.), Helene C. Houle (San Jose, Calif.) and Ismayil M. Guracar (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For quantification of blood flow by an ultrasound system, B-mode images generated with a multi-transmit, coherent image formation produce swirling or other speckle patterns in the blood regions. These patterns, ...