ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,057, issued on April 7, was assigned to Verdure Imaging Inc. (Stockton, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for automatic ultrasound segmentation for visualization and measurement" was invented by Christopher Schlenger (Stockton, Calif.) and Tamas Ungi (Stockton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing ultrasound scans is provided. One embodiment of the ultrasonagraphic system acquires sonogram information from a series of ultrasonic scans of a human subject. The series of ultrasound scans are taken over a portion of interest on the human subject which has their underlying bone structure or other ultrasoun...