ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,885, issued on July 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and operation method thereof" was invented by Yukiya Miyachi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe including a housing in which a first transducer array is disposed at one end and a second transducer array is disposed at the other end, a sensor that is provided in the housing and outputs information for acquiring motion information of the ultrasound probe or angle information of the ultrasound probe, and a processor that acquires used array information indicating wh...