ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,146, issued on April 21, was assigned to Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for contrast enhanced ultrasound quantification imaging" was invented by Ting-lan Ji (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhaoling Lu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for contrast enhanced ultrasound quantification imaging are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining, for each location in a region of interest, a time-dependent ultrasound signal with respect to the region of interest for a time period; ...