ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,262, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Processing apparatus for transforming ultrasound data acquired through a first number of transmissions into data acquired through a higher number of transmissions" was invented by Takeshi Sato (Nasushiobara, Japan), Ryota Osumi (Nasushiobara, Japan), Takatoshi Okumura (Yaita, Japan) and Hidenori Takeshima (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires output data from a trained model by entering examination data acquired at an examination, th...