ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,658, issued on June 30, was assigned to Aaron Fenster (London, Canada).

"System and method for display plane visualization through an ultrasound imaging volume" was invented by Aaron Fenster (London, Canada), Jeffrey Bax (Lucan, Canada), David Tessier (London, Canada), Igor Gyacskov (London, Canada), Claire Keun Sun Park (Edmonton, Canada) and Tiana Trumpour (London, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for capturing and processing high-resolution three-dimensional medical images for oblique plane ultrasound generation and visualization through an ultrasound volume. Combining two three dimensional ultrasound data...