US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on March 25 for "Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and image processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,108, issued on March 25, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of an embodiment includes an ultrasonic probe and processing circuitry. The ultrasonic probe repeatedly performs scanning in which a plane wave or a diffused wave is continuously transmitted a plurality of times in the same direction in a plurality of directions. The processing circuitry performs processing of applying a moving target indicator (MTI) filter to an unequa...