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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2016
Applicant:
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Inventors:
Michael L. Oelze, Champaign, IL (US);
Jonathan Reeg, Urbana, IL (US);
Assignee:
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/00 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/52047 (2013.01); G01S 15/8915 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, applying different apodization weights for ultrasound echoes to generate a plurality of images of a target where one of the apodization weights has a zero mean value across an aperture of a transducer array and generating a null subtracted image of the target by combining the plurality of images. Other embodiments are disclosed.