US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on March 3 for "Methods and systems for conversion of one data type to another" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,327, issued on March 3, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Methods and systems for conversion of one data type to another" was invented by Guillermo Tearney (Boston) and David O. Otuya (Salem, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a B-mode image of a sample, including: obtaining a plurality of M-mode frames from the sample using a probe; combining the plurality of M-mode frames into a montage, the montage comprising a plurality of A-lines corresponding to the respective plurality of M-mode frames; comparing adjacent A-lines of the montage to identify at least one pair of correlated A-lines; a...