US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on July 29 for "Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and medical image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,892, issued on July 29, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and medical image processing method" was invented by Yukifumi Kobayashi (Yokohama, Japan), Go Tanaka (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Satoshi Matsunaga (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes an ultrasound probe and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates functional volume data of a subject based on first information indicating position and angle of the ultrasound probe during a first scan and on first echo data supplied from the ultrasound probe by the fi...