ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,885, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Additional diagnostic data in parametric ultrasound medical imaging" was invented by Yassin Labyed (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For parametric ultrasound imaging with an ultrasound scanner, the values for multiple parameters are determined for tissue of a patient using ultrasound. The determination may be in response to a single activation, avoiding the user having to reconfigure and activate separately for each parameter. To assist in diagnosis, one or more indicators of quality of the measurements of the parameters are ca...