US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SonoSite on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods of determining dimensions of structures in medical images" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,109, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Systems and methods of determining dimensions of structures in medical images" was invented by Christopher A. White (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for producing ultrasound images are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, ultrasound image data are acquired in discrete time increments at one or more positions relative to a subject. Control points are added by a user for two or more image frames and a processor interpolates the location of the control points for image frames obtained at in-between times."

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