ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,001, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound system and control method of ultrasound system which have function of preventing forgetting to attach protective equipment that protects ultrasound probe" was invented by Tsuyoshi Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an ultrasound system and a control method of the ultrasound system, an ultrasound image generated from a reception signal obtained by performing transmission and reception of an ultrasound beam with respect to a subject using an ultrasound probe in a state where the ultrasound probe is separated from a body surface of the ...