ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,791, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, control method for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and processor for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Katsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoki Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) performs switching between a normal screen display mode and a full-screen display mode by performing a mode switching operation on a diagnostic apparatus main body (3) or an ultrasound probe (2), the normal screen display mode being a mode in which an ultrasound image generated by an i...