US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE on Sept. 1 for "Autonomous robotic point of care ultrasound imaging" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,592, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) and UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore).

"Autonomous robotic point of care ultrasound imaging" was invented by Axel Krieger (Alexandria, Va.), Thorsten Roger Fleiter (Baltimore) and Lidia Al-Zogbi (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for and method of autonomously robotically acquiring an ultrasound image of an organ within a bony obstruction of a patient is presented. The techniques include acquiring an electronic three-dimensional patient-specific representation of the bony obstruction of the patient; obtaining an electronic rep...