ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,846, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Blood velocity determination" was invented by Luuk Anton Eli Maria Van Knippenberg (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Johannes Antonius Van Rooij (Best, Netherlands), Krishnamoorthy Palanisamy (Bangalore, India) and Sergei Y. Shulepov (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for estimating blood velocity in vessel, for example for use in deriving a measure of blood flow through the vessel. The method comprises two stages. In a first stage, multiple measurements of blood velocity are acquired, using ultrasound data, at...