US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on July 1 for "Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and image processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,212, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and image processing apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Takahashi (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment has transmitting and receiving circuitry that transmits and receives ultrasonic waves, and processing circuitry. The transmitting and receiving circuitry is configured to perform first beamforming processing on reflected wave signals output from a plurality of transducer elements that receive reflected waves and perform second beamforming proc...