ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,386, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG MEDISON Co. LTD. (Gangwon-Do, South Korea).

"Ultrasonic imaging apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Gilju Jin (Seoul, South Korea), Mijeoung Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungju Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an ultrasonic imaging apparatus and a control method thereof. The ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes a display, and at least one processor. The at least one processor obtains ultrasound image data acquired by an ultrasonic probe, recognizes at least one anatomical feature from the obtained ultrasound image data, autom...