US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on June 30 for "High-sensitivity and real-time ultrasound blood flow imaging based on adaptive and localized spatiotemporal clutter filtering" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,338, issued on June 30, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"High-sensitivity and real-time ultrasound blood flow imaging based on adaptive and localized spatiotemporal clutter filtering" was invented by Chengwu Huang (Rochester, Minn.) and Shigao Chen (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described here are systems and methods for ultrasound clutter filtering to produce images of blood flow in a subject. The systems and methods described in the present disclosure may be advantageously applied to fast ultrasound imaging techniques, including ultrafast plane wave imaging te...