ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,786, issued on April 14, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Free fluid estimation" was invented by Goutam Ghoshal (South Grafton, Mass.), Balasundar Iyyavu Raju (North Andover, Mass.) and Jonathan Fincke (Belmont, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides techniques for free fluid estimation including identifying a region of free fluid in an diagnostic image, calculating a free fluid measure based on the region of free fluid identified in the diagnostic image, and generating a volume class for the region of free fluid in the diagnostic image, wherein the volume class is gen...