ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,789, issued on May 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Tanaka (Chiba, Japan), Nobuhiko Fujii (Chiba, Japan), Haruka Mukawa (Chiba, Japan) and Takayuki Iwashita (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first beam scanning plane and a second beam scanning plane are formed alternately. For formation of the first beam scanning plane, transmission/reception control is performed so that the beam deflection angle increases continuously toward the negative side from a first end to a second end in the electronic scanning direction. For formation of the second beam scanning...