ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,771, issued on April 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).
"Noise reduction in ultrasound images" was invented by Bo Zhuang (Redmond, Wash.) and Jean Tsou (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for noise reduction in ultrasound images are described. These systems and methods include a noise-reduction system that provides a tensor-based approach that mitigates effects of noise processes on ultrasound images and produces "preprocessed" ultrasound images having consistent characteristics, which increases the accuracy and effectiveness of further processing (e.g., via detection and/or segmenta...