US Patent Issued on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods of providing user guidance for acquiring hepato-renal index measurements" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,187, issued on Feb. 17.

"Systems and methods of providing user guidance for acquiring hepato-renal index measurements" was invented by Jingping Xu (Shanghai), Jiayin Zhou (Shanghai), Ling Tong (Suzhou, China), Junping Deng (Shanghai), William Tao Shi (Wakefield, Mass.) and Hua Xie (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Guidance may be provided to users, at least in part, by graphic overlays on displays of ultrasound images. The guidance may assist users in acquiring images suitable for making hepato-renal index (HRI) measurements. In some examples, the guidance may assist the user in finding the proper imaging plane includi...