ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,999, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Diagnostic ultrasound apparatus and computer readable storage medium" was invented by Tetsuya Taniguchi (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic ultrasound apparatus includes a sound ray signal generator, an extractor and an arithmetic unit. The sound ray signal generator generates a sound ray signal based on a reception signal obtained from an ultrasound probe. The ultrasound probe transmits and receives ultrasound to and from a subject. The extractor extracts imaging signals from the sound ray signal by performing filtering of passing differen...