ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,445, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Verathon Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).
"Probability map-based ultrasound scanning" was invented by Joon Hwan Choi (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a probe configured to transmit ultrasound signals to a target of interest, and receive echo information associated with the transmitted ultrasound signals. The system may also include at least one processing device configured to process the received echo information using a machine learning algorithm to generate probability information associated with the target of interest. The at least one processing device may further cla...