US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Nov. 11 for "Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, ultrasound diagnostic system, recording medium, and method for actuating ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,322, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, ultrasound diagnostic system, recording medium, and method for actuating ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Tomonao Kawashima (Hachioji, Japan), Shigenori Kozai (Tama, Japan) and Hiromasa Noguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a drive circuit configured to transmit a drive signal to an ultrasound transducer, a receiving circuit configured to receive an echo signal from the ultrasound transducer, and a processor. The processor obtains, based on the echo signal or a user input...