ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,977, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and operation condition setting method" was invented by Tomohiko Tanaka (Chiba, Japan), Tetsuya Yamada (Chiba, Japan) and Hideki Yoshikawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reception data array composed of a plurality of items of reception data corresponding to a plurality of transmission/reception conditions is generated. For each of the plurality of items of reception data, a plurality of units of data processing are applied to that item of reception data according to a plurality of data processing conditions. A blood flow ...