US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Jan. 13 for "Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,083, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Yoshiara (Kawasaki, Japan), Tomohisa Imamura (Kawasaki, Japan) and Koichiro Kurita (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a transmission and reception circuitry configured to perform, via an ultrasound probe, a first ultrasound scan on a first region in a subject who has a contrast agent injected and a second ultrasound scan on at least a part of a second region in the subject overlapping with the first region, the second ultrasound scan ...