US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Jan. 27 for "Tissue property estimation with ultrasound medical imaging" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,112, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Tissue property estimation with ultrasound medical imaging" was invented by Yassin Labyed (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Andrzej Milkowski (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For tissue property estimation with ultrasound, multiple different types of measurements are performed by an ultrasound system, including scatter measurements and shear wave propagation measurements. The tissue property, such as liver fat fraction, is estimated using a combination of these different types of measurements."

The patent was filed on Nov. 11, 2022, under...