ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,002, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG MEDISON Co. LTD. (Gangwon-Do, South Korea).

"Ultrasonic imaging apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Jun Sang Yoo (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kwang-Hee Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Sung-Yoon Kim (Namyangju-si, South Korea), Jong Sik Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Gil-Ju Jin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an ultrasonic imaging apparatus and a control method thereof. The ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a volume data of an object and a process configured to determine whether an acquisition...