ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,594, issued on July 21, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Ultrasound object point tracking" was invented by Mckee Dunn Poland (Andover, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound device is provided for imaging an anatomical region. The ultrasound device includes an ultrasound probe (288). The ultrasound device further includes a medical instrument (202) having an ultrasound transducer (279) mounted thereto. The ultrasound device also includes a hardware processor (214) configured to render a Region Of Interest (ROI) relative to a distal end of the medical instrument on an ultrasound image dis...