US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Jan. 20 for "Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,551, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Katsunori Asafusa (Chiba, Japan), Tomofumi Nishiura (Chiba, Japan), Eiji Kasahara (Chiba, Japan) and Tomoaki Chono (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound transmission and reception unit that transmits and receives ultrasound waves to and from a subject and that generates a reception signal, an ultrasound information generation unit that generates a plurality of types of ultrasound information based on the reception signal, a detection and measurement unit tha...