US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for synthetic aperture focusing in ultrasound imaging" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,014, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for synthetic aperture focusing in ultrasound imaging" was invented by Mostafa Fatemi (Rochester, Minn.), Bae H. Kim (London) and Azra Alizad (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for suppressing the side-lobe artifacts in ultrasound imaging with plane wave compounding. The use of discrete angles in transmitting plane waves may be used to suppress side-lobes and the resulting side-lobe artifacts without increasing the number of firings required. A method is provi...