ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,808, issued on March 17, was assigned to Anumana Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for guiding ultrasonic probe positioning using scoring-based canonical view simulation model" was invented by Rakesh Barve (Bengaluru, India), Abhijith Chunduru (Bengaluru, India) and Animesh Agarwal (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for guiding ultrasonic probe positioning using scoring-based canonical view simulation model including a catheter coupled to at least a transducer, wherein the at least a transducer is configured to receive ultrasound data, a localization system configured to detect probe position data...