ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,615, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Acoustic wave diagnostic apparatus and method of controlling acoustic wave diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Yoshiro Imai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus 1 includes a display unit 8, an operating unit 15, a measurement position designation reception unit 14 that receives designation of a measurement position on an ultrasound image from a user through the operating unit 15, a measurement target recognition unit 9 that recognizes a measurement target included in the ultrasound image of a recognition range decided ba...