US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on May 5 for "Method and system for artifact reduction by movement detection" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,451, issued on May 5, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Method and system for artifact reduction by movement detection" was invented by Heinz Winkler-Ebner (Tiefgraben, Austria) and Daniel Bauernfeind (Aurach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for artifact reduction in ultrasound imaging comprising acquiring a sequence of ultrasound images using an ultrasound probe along an acquisition plane, tracking a movement of the ultrasound probe along the acquisition plane and a movement of one or more artifacts in the sequence of ultrasound images, identifying one or more artifacts in the se...