ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,845, issued on July 28, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC.
"Ultrasound system imaging of blood flow" was invented by Gerald Schrocker (Salzburg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound system includes a transmitter, a receiver, a processor, and a display system. The transmitter emits ultrasonic energy towards a region of interest of a patient. The receiver receives ultrasonic signals reflected from the region of interest. The processor generates image data from the reflected ultrasonic signals, determines a height map according the reflected ultrasonic signals from the region of interest, and generates shaded i...