US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 13 for "Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and processor for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,780, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes a first vascular wall detection unit (10) that detects a vascular wall in a minor axis direction by analyzing a B-mode image including a minor axis image of a blood vessel, a first blood vessel diameter calculation unit (11) that calculates a first blood vessel diameter from the vascular wall in the minor axis d...