US Patent Issued to VANTARI on July 7 for "Ultrasound simulation" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,083, issued on July 7, was assigned to VANTARI PTY LTD (West Pennant Hills, Australia).

"Ultrasound simulation" was invented by Daniel Loyd Paull (West Pennant Hills, Australia), Vijaynath Pereembarajah Paul (West Pennant Hills, Australia) and Nishanth Krishnananthan (West Pennant Hills, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of simulating an ultrasound scan of tissue in real-time. The method comprises loading a three dimensional deformable soft tissue model of a tissue region for scanning, the deformable soft tissue model being a volumetric model and determining a three dimensional interaction between the defo...