US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Aug. 4 for "Methods and systems for automated center positioning for radial velocity mapping in vector contrast imaging" (Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,098, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Methods and systems for automated center positioning for radial velocity mapping in vector contrast imaging" was invented by William Tao Shi (Wakefield, Mass.), Shiying Wang (Melrose, Mass.), Claudia Errico (Medford, Mass.), Mingxin Zheng (Cambridge, Mass.), Thanasis Loupas (Kirkland, Wash.), Paul Sheeran (Woodinville, Wash.), Charles Tremblay-Darveau (Seattle) and Jeffry Earl Powers (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (100) for generating a radial velocity map for a target region, comprising: (i) receiving (120) a ...