US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Jan. 13 for "Contact-surface determination apparatus, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and ultrasonic diagnostic system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,090, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Contact-surface determination apparatus, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and ultrasonic diagnostic system" was invented by Fumio Mochizuki (Utsunomiya, Japan), Minori Ohashi (Otawara, Japan), Ayako Suzuki (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Koichiro Kurita (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a contact-surface determination apparatus includes processing circuitry. This processing circuitry acquires an image depicting a contact surface of a ultrasonic probe, and determines a state of the contact surface of the ultrasonic pro...