US Patent Issued to Chikayoshi Sumi on Feb. 4 for "Measurement and imaging instruments and beamforming method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,234, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Chikayoshi Sumi (Saitama, Japan).

"Measurement and imaging instruments and beamforming method" was invented by Chikayoshi Sumi (Saitama, Japan) and Naoto Yamazaki (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement and imaging instrument capable of beamforming with high speed and high accuracy without approximate calculation. The instrument includes a reception unit which receives a wave arriving from a measurement object to generate a reception signal; and an instrument main body which performs a lateral modulation while superposing two waves in a two-dimensional case and three or ...