US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE, FUJIFILM on July 15 for "Displaying blood vessels in ultrasound images" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,266, issued on July 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.) and FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Displaying blood vessels in ultrasound images" was invented by Tsuyoshi Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Kosei Takemoto (Tokyo), Davinder S. Dhatt (Bothell, Wash.), Christopher Aleksandr White (Bothell, Wash.), Thomas Michael Duffy (Bothell, Wash.), Adam Benjamin Pely (Bothell, Wash.), Paul Tomotaro Danset (Bothell, Wash.) and Diku Pranav Mandavia (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for identifying blood vessels in ultrasound images and displaying blood vessels in ultrasound images are described. ...