ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,365, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Echonous Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automatically reporting on an anatomical structure visualized in an ultrasound image that is selected by a user" was invented by Babajide Ayinde (Redmond, Wash.) and Matthew Cook (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for presenting automatically generated information about an ultrasound image is described. The facility causes the ultrasound image to be displayed in a display region. Simultaneous to the display of the ultrasound image, the facility causes the following to be displayed in the display region: (1) quantitative data automatically ...