US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on May 26 for "Systems and methods for tracking a tool in an ultrasound image" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,972, issued on May 26, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for tracking a tool in an ultrasound image" was invented by Nenad Mihajlovic (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Arash Pourtaherian (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Michel Paul Barbara van Bruggen (Helmond, Netherlands) and Gary Cheng-How Ng (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for monitoring a location of a tool in an ultrasound image. The method includes acquiring a plurality of 2D ultrasound images by way of an ultrasound transducer, wherein at least one of the plurality of 2D ultrasound images com...