US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on May 26 for "Loosely coupled probe position and view in ultrasound imaging" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,977, issued on May 26, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Loosely coupled probe position and view in ultrasound imaging" was invented by Eli Gibson (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound scanner scans a patient. The scan data is checked for an optimal view as a subpart of the scan. Where the field of view does not include the optimal view, the scan is repeated with a different spatial extent. Where the field of view does include the optimal view, then the scan data for that optimal view is used to generate an image. Both the view and the overall or broader scan are controlled to...