US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on April 14 for "Methods and systems for generating 3D pleural surfaces" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,367, issued on April 14, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for generating 3D pleural surfaces" was invented by Menachem Halmann (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Carmit Shiran (Middleton, Wis.), Radhika Madhavan (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Alex Sokulin (Haifa, Israel) and Lev Greenberg (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for a medical imaging system. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a three-dimensional (3D) pleural surface viewed from an inside of the lung and looking outward based on ultrasound imaging signals. The 3D pleural surface may be ...