US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Dec. 30 for "Ultrasound imaging guidance and associated devices, systems, and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,006, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Ultrasound imaging guidance and associated devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Penelope Eugenia Webb (Somerville, Mass.), Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Cambridge, Mass.), Raghavendra Srinivasa Naidu (Auburndale, Mass.) and Balasundar Iyyavu Raju (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guidance system is configured to detect a current pose of an ultrasound transducer and to determine a movement to achieve a desired pose associated with a desired view or imaging plane of a patients anatomy. In one embodiment, the guidance s...