US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 3 for "3D ultrasound imaging with FOV adaptation" (German, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,382, issued on March 3, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"3D ultrasound imaging with FOV adaptation" was invented by Irina Waechter-Stehle (Hamburg, Germany), Jochen Peters (Norderstedt, Germany), Tanja Lossau (Hamburg, Germany), Mathieu De Craene (Suresnes, France), Andre Goossen (Eldena, Germany), David Prater (Andover, Mass.) and Jose Rivero (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for adapting a 3D field of view (FOV) in ultrasound data acquisition so as to minimize the FOV volume in a manner that is controlled and precise. The method comprises defining a volumetric r...