US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on June 30 for "System and method for automatically acquiring and rotating an ultrasound volume based on a localized target structure" (Norwegian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,342, issued on June 30, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for automatically acquiring and rotating an ultrasound volume based on a localized target structure" was invented by Hongjian Jiang (Wuxi, China), Olivier Gerard (Oslo, Norway), Nuno Almeida (Oslo, Norway), Zhiqiang Jiang (Wuxi, China) and Jinchuan Wang (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically acquiring and rotating an ultrasound volume based on a localized target structure are provided. The method includes performing a first ultrasound image acquisition and automatically detecting and trac...