Inventor · Durham, NC, US

Gregg E. Trahey

23Patents
13h-index
31Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 7, 1988 → Aug 31, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5744898A Ultrasound transducer array with transmitter/receiver integrated circuitry Electricity 239 Expired
US5673699A Method and apparatus for abberation correction in the presence of a distributed aberrator Physics 193 Expired
US5605154A Two-dimensional phase correction using a deformable ultrasonic transducer array Physics 175 Expired
US5487387A Method and apparatus for distinguishing between solid masses and fluid-filled cysts Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 100 Expired
US4852577A High speed adaptive ultrasonic phased array imaging system Physics 97 Expired
US6692439B1 Angular scatter imaging system using translating apertures and method thereof Physics 87 Expired
US5331964A Ultrasonic phased array imaging system with high speed adaptive processing using selected elements Physics 81 Expired
US7374538B2 Methods, systems, and computer program products for ultrasound measurements using receive mode parallel processing Human Necessities 74 Expired
US6716168B2 Ultrasound drug delivery enhancement and imaging systems and methods Human Necessities 64 Expired
US6371912B1 Method and apparatus for the identification and characterization of regions of altered stiffness Physics 61 Expired
US6764448B2 Methods, systems, and computer program products for imaging using virtual extended shear wave sources Physics 58 Expired
US6951544B2 Method and apparatus for the identification and characterization of regions of altered stiffness Physics 57 Expired
US8118744B2 Methods, systems and computer program products for ultrasound shear wave velocity estimation and shear modulus reconstruction Human Necessities 31 Active
US10349917B2 Synthetic aperture ultrasound system Physics 6 Active
US9883852B2 Ultrasound systems, methods and computer program products for estimating tissue deformation with harmonic signals Human Necessities 3 Active
US10959703B2 Methods, systems and computer program products for single track location shear wave elasticity imaging Physics 2 Active
US9254116B2 Methods, systems and apparatuses for Van-Cittert Zernike imaging Physics 1 Active
US10969487B2 Methods, systems and computer program products for triggering ultrasound data acquisition Physics 1 Active
US11415693B2 Spatial coherence feedback for adaptive clutter filtering Physics 1 Active
US11583254B2 Systems and methods for intra-beam compounding for ultrasound imaging Physics 1 Active
US12082975B2 Methods, systems and computer program products for ultrasound imaging using coherence contribution Physics 0 Active
US11751851B2 Methods, systems and computer program products for tissue analysis using ultrasonic backscatter coherence Physics 0 Active
US11896428B2 Adaptive selection of ultrasound frequency Physics 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.