US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Feb. 17 for "Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and medical image processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,192, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and medical image processing apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Sato (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of embodiment includes a receiver circuit and processing circuitry. The receiver circuit performs a first process of multiplying a gain to a received signal in analog form while changing the gain with depth, and performs a second process of converting the received signal subjected to the first process into a received signal in digital form. The processing circuitr...