ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,311, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical image diagnostic apparatus and control method for medical image diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Yukiya Miyachi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a medical image diagnostic apparatus and a control method of a medical image diagnostic apparatus capable of improving an accuracy of an examination on a subject.A medical image diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe, a probe moving device that moves the ultrasound probe along the surface of the compression plate, an ultrasound data acquisition unit that acquires ultrasound data...