ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,695, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"AI-based ultrasound navigation system for navigating to target positions defined by text or images" was invented by Abdoul Aziz Amadou (London), Vivek Singh (Princeton, N.J.), Puneet Sharma (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Florin-Cristian Ghesu (Baiersdorf, Germany) and Young-Ho Kim (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically navigating a medical image acquisition device are provided. 1) An initial image depicting a current position of a medical image acquisition device and 2) at least one of a target imag...