US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on July 14 for "Contrast and B-mode combination for strain analysis in medical ultrasound imaging" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,127, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Contrast and B-mode combination for strain analysis in medical ultrasound imaging" was invented by Huseyin Tek (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For boundary detection, such as heart wall detection for strain or another quantification, the boundary is detected using multiple types of imaging, such as B-mode and contrast. The confidence in the detected locations is used to form a more accurate boundary, such as replacing low confidence locations from B-mode imaging with higher confidence locations from the contrast imaging. Even w...