US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 9 for "Ultrasound probe and ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,895, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound probe and ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Tsuneo Kawamata (Chiba, Japan), Kengo Imagawa (Chiba, Japan) and Takayuki Iwashita (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The number of signal lines connecting an ultrasound probe and an apparatus main body of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus can be reduced while suppressing reduction of the maximum opening width of the ultrasound probe. A transducer array is conceptually divided into a plurality of center-side main transducers located on a center side of an arrangement, a plurality of first ...