ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,772, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Identifying blood vessels in ultrasound images" was invented by Davinder S. Dhatt (Bothell, Wash.), Christopher Aleksandr White (Bothell, Wash.), Adam Benjamin Pely (Bothell, Wash.), Thomas Michael Duffy (Bothell, Wash.), Paul Tomotaro Danset (Bothell, Wash.) and Diku Pranav Mandavia (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for identifying blood vessels in ultrasound images and displaying blood vessels in ultrasound images are described. In some embodiments, the method is implemented by a computing device and includes assi...