US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Aug. 18 for "Microbubble destruction for medical ultrasound imaging" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,347, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Microbubble destruction for medical ultrasound imaging" was invented by David P. Duncan (Renton, Wash.), Gilles D. Guenette (North Bend, Wash.) and Ismayil M. Guracar (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By identifying locations of contrast agent response, an intensity-based metric of contrast agent signal is used to control a duration of microbubble destruction with a medical ultrasound scanner. Feedback from motion of the transducer may be used to indicate when a user perceives enough destruction. A combination of both an int...