ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,193, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).
"Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Sato (Nasushiobara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes an ultrasound probe including a plurality of transducer elements arranged two-dimensionally. The plurality of transducer elements are a plurality of Row-Column Addressing transducer elements configured so that: when a first ultrasound wave is to be transmitted, the first ultrasound wave is caused to be transmitted from a first transducer element group including a plura...