US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Dec. 23 for "Ultrasound imaging system and method" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,160, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Ultrasound imaging system and method" was invented by Emad S. Ebbini (Edina, Minn.), Nayef Abdulrahman Alshamlan (Minneapolis) and Abhishek Sahoo (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to a method for use in ultrasound imaging of matter in a region comprising providing wave energy into the region and transducing wave energy returned from the region to form a set of receive signals defining received signal data. The method comprises separating linear and nonlinear components of the received signal data based on ...