US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on Nov. 3 for "Enhancement of local features in ultrasound" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,558, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Enhancement of local features in ultrasound" was invented by Yong Zhou (Woodinville, Wash.), Bo Zhuang (Redmond, Wash.) and Jean Tsou (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for enhancing local features in ultrasound images are disclosed. In some embodiments, an ultrasound system includes an ultrasound scanner configured to transmit ultrasound at a patient anatomy and receive reflections of the ultrasound from the patient anatomy and a processor. The processor is configured to: generate an ultrasound image based on the reflections ...