US Patent Issued to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on July 14 for "Ultrasound signal correlation phase estimation of lung motion" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,142, issued on July 14, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Ultrasound signal correlation phase estimation of lung motion" was invented by Jonathan M. Rubin (Ann Arbor, Mich.), J. Brian Fowlkes (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Oliver D. Kripfgans (Ann Arbor, Mich.), James D. Hamilton (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Christopher Fung (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating lung motion (e.g., local lung motion and local lung ventilation) includes collecting a time series of ultrasound images of a lung surface, the time series including a plurality of frames, identifying a lung surfa...