US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 16 for "Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,757, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Tetsurou Ebata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, a first ultrasound image of one pharyngeal part of left and right pharyngeal parts of a subject is analyzed to detect a region of a swallowing residue in the first ultrasound image. Registration of the first ultrasound image is performed with respect to a second ultrasound image of the other pharyngeal part of the le...