US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on June 30 for "System and method for urodynamic analysis using ultrasound data" (Wisconsin, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,341, issued on June 30, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for urodynamic analysis using ultrasound data" was invented by Wade Bushman (Middletown, R.I.) and Alejandro Roldan-Alzate (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for ultrasound-based urodynamic evaluation are presented in the present disclosure. Pre-void and post-void ultrasound data of a bladder is acquired, in addition to a dynamic acquisition during voiding on a sagittal plane that encompasses the bladder, bladder neck and proximal urethra. The dynamic acquisition may be an ultrasound cine s...