Patents by Inventor Donna Lynn Richmond

Donna Lynn Richmond has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120323123
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of ultrasonically imaging a region of interest that may contain anechoic and/or hypoechoic echoes. The method comprises the steps of: providing a first and a second set of ultrasound data, said two sets comprising information of the region of interest at two different instants of time respectively, determining from the first and second data sets, a temporal consistency value of at least an area of the region of interest, and producing an image indicating this area as being hypoechoic or anechoic in accordance with said temporal consistency value. Doing so, an anechoic image produced by the method of the invention emphazises the rendering of anechoic and/or hypoechoic areas over echoic ones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Unmin Bae, Donna Lynn Richmond, Alexey Viktorovich Cherepakhin, Zhaowen Yang, Vijay Shamdasani