US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Sept. 2 for "Ultrasound image-based identification of anatomical scan window, probe orientation, and/or patient position" (Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,863, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Ultrasound image-based identification of anatomical scan window, probe orientation, and/or patient position" was invented by Jochen Kruecker (Andover, Mass.), Gary Cheng-How Ng (Redmond, Wash.), Raghavendra Srinivasa Naidu (Auburndale, Mass.), Man M Nguyen (Melrose, Mass.) and Hua Xie (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging system includes an a processor circuit that stores, in a memory in communication with the processor circuit, a target parameter representative of a target anatomical scan window. The processor...