US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Oct. 14 for "Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,189, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Masafumi Noguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes an ultrasound probe (2); an image acquisition unit that generates an ultrasound image by performing transmission and reception of an ultrasound beam with respect to a subject using the ultrasound probe (2); and an initial condition setting unit (25) that sets a basic sound speed value for generating the ultrasound image of a breast of the subject on the basi...