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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2022
Applicant:

Decision Sciences Medical Company, Llc, Poway, CA (US);

Inventor:

Dustin E. Kruse, Grand Island, NY (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/89 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); B06B 1/02 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/8997 (2013.01); A61B 8/4488 (2013.01); A61B 8/483 (2013.01); G01S 7/52047 (2013.01); G01S 15/8915 (2013.01); G01S 15/8925 (2013.01); G01S 15/8927 (2013.01); B06B 1/0292 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, devices, and methods for sparse synthetic aperture ultrasound (SSAU) imaging and/or range-Doppler applications are described. An example method for SAU imaging includes receiving, via a user interface, an input including an array topology comprising a particular N-dimensional arrangement of a plurality of transducer elements of the SAU system, an objective space, a function characterizing an imaging capability of the SAU system, and one or more constraints, generating, based on the input, an acoustic field over the objective space for each of the plurality of transducer elements of the array topology, selecting one or more transducer elements from the plurality of transducer elements of the array topology based on evaluation of the function, and providing for display, on the user interface, the selected one or more transducer elements that satisfy each of the one or more constraints.


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