ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,059, issued on April 7, was assigned to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and GYNAECOLOGIEPRAKTIJK B.C. SCHOOT B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Quantitative analysis of uterine spatiotemporal motion patterns and coordination" was invented by Massimo Mischi (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Benedictus Schoot (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image analysis method for quantitative assessment of a degree of coordination of uterine motion, comprising: obtaining a recording of a uterus; tracking, in the recording, at least two propagation waves of uterine motion in at least two different regions of ...