US Patent Issued to UCL BUSINESS on July 8 for "Ultrasound registration" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,098, issued on July 8, was assigned to UCL BUSINESS LTD (London).

"Ultrasound registration" was invented by Joao Ramalhinho (London) and Matthew J. Clarkson (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method is disclosed for identifying a pose of a probe by registering an ultrasound image with volumetric scan data. The volumetric scan data is processed (31) to determine simulated ultrasound images corresponding with a plurality of different poses of the probe. A feature vector is extracted (32) from each of the simulated ultrasound images and from the ultrasound image. The feature vector from the ultrasound image is ...