US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Sept. 23 for "Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and controlling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,606, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and controlling method" was invented by Yoko Okamura (Otawara, Japan) and Naohisa Kamiyama (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a scan controlling unit that exercises control to perform a first scanning process by transmitting an ultrasound wave in a first direction and a second scanning process by transmitting an ultrasound wave in each of a plurality of directions; an image generating unit that generates a first ultrasound image and second ultrasound images fro...