ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,706, issued on June 10, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Kawabata (Chiba, Japan), Hideki Yoshikawa (Chiba, Japan) and Noriaki Inoue (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A push wave transmission unit transmits a push wave to a biological tissue of a subject. A tracking wave transmission/reception unit transmits a tracking wave to the biological tissue and receives a reflected ultrasound wave reflected by the biological tissue. An elasticity analysis unit measures a propagation velocity of a shear wave generated in the biological tissue by the push wave and measur...