US Patent Issued to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute on Feb. 17 for "Image processing method for multi-frequency ultrasound probe device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,194, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Image processing method for multi-frequency ultrasound probe device" was invented by Rihong Chen (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Hanqiang Huang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing multiple image data sets, each image data set generated by a different ultrasound frequency emitter, to obtain a single merged image data set for use to display a single merged image. The method can also include steps to account for non-ideal alignment between the different ultrasound frequency ...