US Patent Issued to Evident Canada on May 5 for "Probe position encoding by ultrasound image correlation" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,809, issued on May 5, was assigned to Evident Canada Inc. (Quebec, Canada).

"Probe position encoding by ultrasound image correlation" was invented by Alain Le Duff (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data indicative of displacement of an acoustic probe assembly (or motion of an imaging aperture associated therewith) can be extracted from acquired acoustic echo data to perform motion tracking without requiring a separate mechanical motion sensor. As an illustrative example, a deterministic noise pattern associated with a particular probe location can be identified and motion of the noise pattern can be used to provide an esti...