US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Aug. 4 for "Ultrasound imaging system with a neural network for deriving imaging data and tissue information" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,099, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Ultrasound imaging system with a neural network for deriving imaging data and tissue information" was invented by David Hope Simpson (Bothell, Wash.), Earl M. Canfield (New Braunfels, Texas), Robert Gustav Trahms (Edmonds, Wash.) and Vijay Thakur Shamdasani (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound system according to some embodiments may include an ultrasound transducer configured to transmit ultrasound pulses toward tissue and generate echo signals responsive to the ultrasound pulses, a channel memory configured to store the...