ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,034, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Increasing image quality in ultrasound images due to poor facial rendering" was invented by KS Shriram (Bengaluru, India), Rahul Venkataramani (Bengaluru, India), Chandan Kumar Aladahalli (Bengaluru, India) and Stephan Anzengruber (Zipf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for identifying a mid-sagittal plane (MSP) in a medical image. In one example, a method for an image processing system comprises obtaining an input volume acquired with an ultrasound imaging system, entering the input volume as input to a segme...