US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Jan. 20 for "Method and system for improved ultrasound plane acquisition" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,552, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and system for improved ultrasound plane acquisition" was invented by Laurence Germond Rouet (Paris), Cybele Ciofolo-Veit (Meudon, France), Caroline Denise Francoise Raynaud (Suresnes, France) and Antoine Olivier (Suresnes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for determining a global confidence index for a 2D ultrasound image extracted from a 3D ultrasound volume, wherein the global confidence index indicates the suitability of the 2D ultrasound image for medical measurements. The method comprises obtai...