ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,014, issued on March 24, was assigned to KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (Leuven, Belgium).
"Flexible ultrasound transducer" was invented by Jan D'Hooge (Mechelen, Belgium) and Marcus Ingram (Rotselaar, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actual shape estimation method for a flexible ultrasound device and to an ultrasound imaging system includes an actual shape estimation module. The module, when executed, performs the steps of the method, including determining a series of shape metrics based on a predetermined series of assumed shapes of the flexible ultrasound device, and selecting an optimal shape metric, corresponding with ...