ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,321, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Ultrasound method" was invented by Sally Collins (Oxford, Great Britain), Yi Yin (Oxford, Great Britain), Alys Clark (Grafton, New Zealand) and Padraig Looney (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of automatically identifying a reference vessel in an ultrasound image, the method comprising: segmenting the image to identify an organ; locating a predetermined anatomical landmark specific to the organ; identifying appropriate vasculature for the organ; and selecting a reference vessel from the...