ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,990, issued on May 26, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and ultrasound signal generation method" was invented by Ryosuke Iwasaki (Otawara, Japan), Hiroki Takahashi (Nasushiobara, Japan), Tomohisa Imamura (Otawara, Japan), Ting Xia (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Liang Cai (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Jian Zhou (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus of an embodiment includes storage circuitry and processing circuitry. The storage circuitry stores therein a trained model trained using a first ultrasound signal containing a saturated signal as in...