US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 8 for "Ultrasound imaging apparatus and signal processing method, for efficient delay-and-sum processing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,904, issued on July 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound imaging apparatus and signal processing method, for efficient delay-and-sum processing" was invented by Teiichiro Ikeda (Chiba, Japan), Kenichi Adachi (Chiba, Japan), Kazuhiro Amino (Chiba, Japan) and Masanori Hisatsu (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Receive signals generated by ultrasound waves propagating in completed manner in a depth direction of a subject, are efficiently subjected to delay-and-sum processing, whereby a higher resolution image is generated with reducing a circuit size. Receive signals outputted from multiple ultrasound probe el...