US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Aug. 18 for "Method and system for analyzing ultrasound scenes to provide needle guidance and warnings" (Israeli, Japanese, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,344, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Method and system for analyzing ultrasound scenes to provide needle guidance and warnings" was invented by Dani Pinkovich (Haifa, Israel), Doron Shaked (Haifa, Israel), Sagi Schein (Haifa, Israel), Antonio Fabian Fermoso (Madrid), Naomi Sato (Tokyo) and Ruth Bergman (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for analyzing ultrasound scenes to provide needle guidance and warnings is provided. The method includes acquiring, by an ultrasound system, an ultrasound image. The method includes segmenting, by at least one processor, ...