ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,467, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Multiple-quality assessments from single segmentation algorithm" was invented by Antoine Olivier (Suresnes, France), Caroline Denise Francoise Raynaud (Suresnes, France), Cybele Ciofolo-Veit (Meudon, France) and Laurence Rouet (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing an ultrasound image involves assessing the quality of the image in terms of which features of interest have been identified in the image and assessing a segmentation quality relating to the quality of a segmentation of the image. The two quality assessments are co...