US Patent Issued to Exo Imaging on Nov. 3 for "System for automated real-time detection, outlining, tracking and characterization of blood vessels in ultrasound imaging" (Illinois, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,537, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Exo Imaging Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System for automated real-time detection, outlining, tracking and characterization of blood vessels in ultrasound imaging" was invented by Yongyi Yang (Westmont, Ill.), Miles N. Wernick (Evanston, Ill.) and Jonathan A. Bowman (Montgomery, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, a method, and computer-implemented media. The apparatus is to perform a vessel detection algorithm to detect, in real time during image generation by an ultrasound imaging device, a vessel of a living body, the algorithm including: determining current vessel parameters bas...