ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,778, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Guidance for patient in pelvic examination" was invented by Anuprriya Gogna (Bengaluru, India), Rahul Venkataramani (Bengaluru, India) and Naveen Paluru (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatic guidance in ultrasound scans including: an ultrasound probe configured to perform an ultrasound image acquisition; and at least one processor configured to: present the ultrasound image acquisition; receive user input representing one or more landmark points relative to one or more anatomical structures in the ultr...