US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on July 1 for "Ultrasound image analyzing apparatus for quantifying contrast agent stagnation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,211, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Ultrasound image analyzing apparatus for quantifying contrast agent stagnation" was invented by Yuko Takada (Utsunomiya, Japan), Masaki Watanabe (Utsunomiya, Japan), Yasunori Honjo (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Yu Igarashi (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate contrast image data on the basis of a contrast signal acquired from an examined subject to whom a contrast agent is administered. The processing c...