US Patent Issued to JointVue on Jan. 27 for "Real-time 3-D ultrasound reconstruction of knee and its implications for patient-specific implants and 3-D joint injections" (Ohio, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,105, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JointVue LLC (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Real-time 3-D ultrasound reconstruction of knee and its implications for patient-specific implants and 3-D joint injections" was invented by Mohamed R. Mahfouz (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Ray C. Wasielewski (New Albany, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for treating a patient. The method includes acquiring a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals with an ultrasound transducer, each RF signal representing one or more return echoes from a scan line of a pulse-mode echo ultrasound scan. A position of the ultrasound transducer corresponding to...