US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on June 2 for "Circulatory system assessment" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,509, issued on June 2, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Circulatory system assessment" was invented by Antoine Olivier (Suresnes, France), David Prabhu (Cambridge, Mass.), Patrick Gabriels Rafter (Windham, N.H.), Oudom Somphone (Paris), Caroline Denise Francoise Raynaud (Suresnes, France) and Alexandra Goncalves (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for assessing an area of interest in the circulatory system of a subject. The method comprises: obtaining (210) a temporal sequence of ultrasound image frames of the area of interest; obtaining (220, 320) one or...