ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,464, issued on July 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Tetsurou Ebata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus the of the present invention, a two-dimensional image generation unit generates a plurality of two-dimensional ultrasound images while shifting an angle or a position of a scanning plane using a transducer array in a state where an ultrasound probe is fixed by being in contact with an examination location of a subject. A motion determination unit sequentially calculates a similar...