US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 24 for "Ultrasonography apparatus, mammography apparatus, and control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,862, issued on June 24, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonography apparatus, mammography apparatus, and control program" was invented by Hisatsugu Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Lisako Nobuyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Masataka Sugahara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koji Taninai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonography apparatus includes: a processor configured to detect, from an image obtained by capturing a breast, a region of breast to which an acoustic matching member is not applied, the acoustic matching member being a member for reducing a difference in acoustic impedance between an ultrasound probe whic...