US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for adaptive contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging" (Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,987, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for adaptive contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging" was invented by Shiying Wang (Melrose, Mass.), Thanasis Loupas (Kirkland, Mass.), Jeffry Earl Powers (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Claudia Errico (Cambridge, Mass.), William Tao Shi (Wakefield, Mass.), Paul Sheeran (Woodinville, Wash.) and Charles Tremblay-Darveau (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating adaptive contrast accumulation imaging images are disclosed. A point spread function thinning/skeletonization technique may be performed o...