US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on May 5 for "Robust view classification and measurement in ultrasound imaging" (American, Romanian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,440, issued on May 5, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Robust view classification and measurement in ultrasound imaging" was invented by Dominik Neumann (Erlangen, Germany), Awais Mansoor (Potomac, Md.), Vlad Comanelea-Serban (Brasov, Romania), Sasa Grbic (Plainsboro, N.J.), Mallory Selzo (Kirkland, Wash.) and Andrzej Milkowski (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For robust view classification and measurement estimation in sequential ultrasound imaging, the classification and/or measurements for a given image or sequence of images are gated. To prevent oscillation in results, the gating pr...