ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,265, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).
"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Sato (Nasushiobara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus repeats ultrasonic wave transmissions with different transmission angles in units of packets. The apparatus receives reception signals. The apparatus performs beamforming on the reception signals. The apparatus performs MTI filtering on initial images for each group of the same transmission angle. The apparatus performs principal component analysis on the MTI images for each of the packets having the s...