ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,661, issued on March 17, was assigned to WUHAN UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Methods, systems, and storage mediums for flow velocity detection" was invented by Guangdi Guo (Wuhan, China) and Oliver Heid (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for a flow velocity detection. The method may include obtaining image data; determining, based on the image data, a parameter of at least one detection point, the parameter being related to a phase change; and determining a first flow velocity of the at least one detection point based on the parameter rel...