US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare, The General Hospital on March 31 for "Ultrasound imaging techniques for shear-wave elastography" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,898, issued on March 31, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC and The General Hospital Corp..

"Ultrasound imaging techniques for shear-wave elastography" was invented by Abder-Rahman Ali (Halifax, Canada), Michael Wang (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Michael J. Washburn (Brookfield, Wis.), Yelena Tsymbalenko (Mequon, Wis.), Anthony E. Samir (Newton, Mass.), Viksit Kumar (Quincy, Mass.), Shuhang Wang (Newton, Mass.) and Theodore Pierce (Auburndale, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By example, a method includes: receiving ultrasound image data of a patient, including a segmented region corresponding to a liver; automatically identifying...