US Patent Issued to Washington University on May 13 for "System and method for augmented reality data interaction for ultrasound imaging" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,784, issued on May 13, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"System and method for augmented reality data interaction for ultrasound imaging" was invented by Jonathan Silva (St. Louis), Christopher Andrews (Chesterfield, Mo.), Jennifer Silva (St. Louis) and Zahid Iqbal (Kirkwood, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixed reality (MR) visualization system includes an MR device comprising a holographic display configured to display a holographic image to an operator, a hand-held ultrasound imaging device configured to obtain a real-time ultrasound image of a subject's anatomy, and a computing device communicatively coupl...